A 55-year-old man who recently recovered uneventfully from a heart valve transplant presents to the emergency room with pleuritic chest pain, hemoptysis, fever, and chills. While he is being examined, he has a myocardial infarction and the medical team is unable to revive him. An autopsy revealed septate, acutely branching hyphae in many tissues. Which of the following organisms is most likely to be identified?

  •   Blastomyces dermatitidis
  •   Histoplasma capsulatum
  •   Mucor species
  •  Aspergillus fumigatus
  •   Cryptococcus neoformans