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Yeast

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Unicellular, round, asex reproduce with budding.

Moist colonies, pseudohyphae with constrictions

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Mold

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Filamentous, tubular branching hyphae with septations

Form fuzzy, velvety or smooth colonies

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Mycelium

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Large intertwined mass hyphae without reproductive capacity. Diff types: spiral, pectinate, nodular, racquet, favic

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Tinea nigra

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Hortaea werneckii

Darker peripheral border

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Black piedra

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PIedra hortae, hard/firm, black nits–adhere to hair

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White piedra

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Trichosporon beigelii (Ovoides, inkin, asahii, cutaneum), soft, non firm, white, less adherent

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Most common tinea capitis in US

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T. tonsurans (2nd–T. canis)

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Fluorescent Ectothrix

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Cats and Dogs Fight and Growl Sometimes

M. canis, audouinii, distrotium, ferrugineum, (T. gypseum, schoenleinii)

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Endothrix

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Black dot ringworm: Ringo Gave Yoko Two Squeaky Violins

T. rubrum, gourvilli, yaounde, tonsurans, Soudanense, violaceum

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Nonflourescent Ectothrix

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My Right Nail Gave Me Warts

T. mentag, rubrum, M. nanuum, T. gypseum, T. megninii, verrucosum

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Favus/Scutula

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T. schoenleinii, violaceum, gypseum

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Kerion

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M. canis, T. tonsurans, T verrucosum, T. mentag

Treat with pred and anti fungal

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Tinea corporis

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#1--T. rubrum
#2-- T. mentag then canis and tonsurans/gypseum
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Majocchi’s granuloma

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1-T. rubrum

or T. mentag
–Needs bx and oral anti fungal. Dermatophyte in hair follicle

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Tinea barbae–superficial

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T. violaceum or T. rubrum

All barbaes need oral anti fungal

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Tinea barbae-abscess

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M. canis

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Tinea barbae–verrucous granulomatosis

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E. floccosum

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Tinea barbae=-Deep, inflammatory

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T. mentag or T verrucosum

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T. manuum

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T. rubrum, T. mentag, E. floccosum

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T. pedis

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Most are T. rub rum

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Bullous T. pedis

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T. mentag

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White superficial onychomycosis

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T. mentagrophytes (HIV T. rub), also Aspergillus, Acremonium, fusarium, scopulariopsis. Chalky white.

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Proximal white sublingual onychomycosis

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T. rubrum, near lunula. Marker HIV

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Distal lateral sunungual onychomycosis

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T. rubrum

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Epidermophyton

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No Microconidia
Macrocon: club shaped, smooth. Thin and thick walls, 2-6 cells
No hair involve

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Trichophyton

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Microcon diagnostic
Macrocon: not diagnostic. pencil shaped, smooth
Nonfluoresc ecto and endo invasion

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Microsporum

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Macro:diagnostic rough walled, barrel shaped

Fluor and non fluor ectothrix invasion

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Epidermophyton floccosum

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T. cruris and T. pedis; occ corporis/onycho

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Microsporum audouinii

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T. corporis and capitis
Mouse fur colony
Polished rice –

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Microsporum canis

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Most common cause T. capitis worldwide
White, fur like with yellow periphery
Polished rice +

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Microsporum ferrugineum

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T. capitis and corporis

Smooth, waxy, rust colored, heaped

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Microsporum gallinae

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Rare cause tinea capitis, usually chicken favus

Fluffy to felt-like what colony becoming pink

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M. gypseum

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Tinea corporis
Flat, powdery, buff to cinnamon with white periphery
Polished rice +

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M. nanum

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Tinea capitis
Fluffy white, powdery baige
Pig snout macroconidia

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In Vitro Hair Perforation

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+wedge shaped area in hair shaft–T mentag

no change in hair shaft–T rub rum, ferrug

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Pigmentation Production on cornmeal agar with dextrose

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+ T rubrum

-T mentag

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Urease Test

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+red pink–T mentag

-amber T rubrum, ferruge, soudanese

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Trichophyton equinum

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Requires niacin for growth

cream to yellow; fluffy with radial grooves

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Trichophyton menginii

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T. barbae, T. capitis, corporis, unguium
Requires histidine
white to pink suede-like colony flat or with gentle folds

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Trichophyton mentagrophytes

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var. interdigitale-anthro
var. mentagro-zoophilic
brown to red
Spiral hyphae
Hair perf+, urease +, pigment -

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Trichophyton rubrum

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One hand, 2 foot
birds on a wire
Pigment on agar +
Urease -
Hair perfor -
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Trichophyton soudanense

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T. capitis, corporis

Urease negative

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Trichophyton tonsurans

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Most common cause T capitis in US
BLack dot endothrix
Partial thiamine requirement

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Trichophyton concentricum

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Tinea imbricata
Deeply folded, cerebriform
Some need thiamine

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Trichophyton schloenleinii

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Capitis, corporis, unguium

Favic chandelier

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Trichophyton verrucosum

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Ecto capitis, Inflamm barbae, T. corporis, faciei
Grows best at 37
Needs Thiamine +- inositol
Waxy white heaped

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Trichophyton violaceum

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T. capitis
Purple colony
Partial need for thiamine

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Scytalidium dimidiatum

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Soles, toe webs. PIgmented hyphae
Sesnsitive to cycloheximide
Resistant to antifungals

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E. floccosum

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T. cruris and pedis

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M. audouinii

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Polish rice -

Former #1 tinea capitis

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M. canis

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#1 tinea capitis world wide
Polish rice+
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T. rubrum

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1 worldwide overall

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T. tonsurans

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1 t capitis in US

54
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Most common fungus in burn patients

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Fusarium

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Hyalohyphomycosis
Histo looks like aspergillosis
Cause painful cellulitis, abcess, necrotic nodules
Banana shaped

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Penicillium

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Blue grey colony with white border

External ear, mycotic kertitis

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Scopulariopis

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White superficial onychomycosis

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Paecilomyces

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Erythematous macules, vesicles, pustules or nodules

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Phaeohyphomycosis

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Fontana Masson

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Alternaria

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Phaeohyphomycosis
Common plant pathogens
Looks like hand grenade

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Cryptococcus

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Encapsulated yeast
Pigeon droppings
Stain: PAS, GMS, Fontana Masson
Mucicarmine or alcian blue capsule

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Rhinosporidium seeberi

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Large polyps, wartlike lesions in nasal mucosa, eye, mouth.

Red with mucicarmine

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Protothecosis

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algae

Olecranon bursitis in 1/3 of cases

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Spiral hyphae Mycelia

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T. mentagrophytes

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Pectinate bodies mycelia

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Look like comb-M. audouinii

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Nodular bodies

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Knot of twisted hyphae

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Racquet hyphae

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Club shaped–C. immitis

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Favic chandeliers

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Antlers–T. schoenleinii

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Arthroconidia–Asexual conidia

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C. immitis-barrel shaped spores released by fragmentation

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Chlamydoconidia–Asexual conidia

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C. albicans, T. tonsurans–Spherical, resist to environment

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Blastoconidia–Asexual conidia

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Yeast–formed by budding

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Sporangia–Asexual conidia

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Spores produced in a sac–Zygomycetes

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Conidia–Asexual conidia

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Cells made on end of sides of hyphae–Dermatophyte

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Trichosporanosis

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Via. T. asahii–fungemia in immcompromised patient

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Tinea imbricata

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T. concentricum

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Tinea profunda

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Often verrucous.

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tinea cruris

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E. flocossum, T. rubrum or T. mentag

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tinea facei

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Usually child upper lip and chin after animal exposure

T rubrum, T mentag, M. canis or T. concentricum

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Mocassin T pedis

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T. rubrum, E. floccosum

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Bullous T pedis

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T. mentagrophytes

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Interdigital T pedis

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T. rubrum, T. mentag (E. floccosum)

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Onychomycosis

83
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Candida glabrata

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#2 - 15-20% patients with invasive candida
Fluconazole resist
84
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Candida parapsilosis

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chronic paronychia and systemic disease

85
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Candida tropicalis

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septicemia esp in leuk, lymphoma and DM

86
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Candida dubliniensis

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Oropharn of HIV patients and often after prev treatment with antifungals

87
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Chromoblastomycosis

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Fonsecaea pedrosoi (most common)
Fonsecaea compacta
Rhinocladeilla aquaspersa
Phialophora verrucosa
Exophiala jeanselmei
Cladophialophora carrionii
88
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Hyalohyphomycosis

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Nondematiaceous, hyaline fungi
Penicillium, Acremonium, Fusarium, Scopulariopsis
Banana shaped macroconidia

89
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Phaeohyphomycosis

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Dematiaceous
Alternaria--hand grenades
Curvularia
Exophiala
Biopolaris
90
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Rhinosporidiosis

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Rhinosporidium seeberi, water protozoan
GIANT SPORANGIA (up to 500um)
Nasal mucosa–vegetating polyps

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Aspergillosis

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A. flavus-yellow to green culture. Most common for cutaneous disease
A. fumigatus-most com species
A. niger
Branch at 45deg

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Sabouraud Dextrose Agar

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Gold Standard. Nutritionally poor.

Peptone, glucose, water, agar

93
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Modified SDA

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Mycosel or Mycobiotic.
SDA+cycloheximide+chloramphenicol
Good for hair, nails, skin.
Cyclohex inh’s saprophytic fungi (protothecosis, H. werneckii, scytalidium, candida other than albicans, C neoformans)

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Dermatophyte Test Media

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Peptones, dextrose, cycloheximide, phenol red, chlortetracycline, gentamicin
Dermatophytes–turn from amber to RED bc alkaline by products
Nondermato-cause media to turn yellow or stay amber bc of acid

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