These are pretreated and laundered industrial stain monitors that Andrea used during detergent testing. The bottom-middle monitor shows stains pretreated and washed with Tide Free & Gentle.

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Trichophyton violaceum was identified as the causative organism on the basis of colony morphology, microscopic morphology and molecular biology technique. As T. violaceum infection is not often ...

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