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Fungal Diseases (Mycoses)
Fungal Diseases (Mycoses)
(MYCOSES)
OWNER: PROF. HOLLY GRACE ESPIRITU, RMT, MS MICRO
PRESENTED BY: ROCHELLE D. DARLUCIO-YABUT, RMT, MPH
OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE
LESSON INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES:
( Dermatomycoses)
CUTANEOUS MYCOSES ( DERMATOMYCOSES)
▶ Keratin Loving (degrades keratin)
▶• A. ectothrix
▶ • B. endothrix
▶ • C. wood’s lamp
▶ • D. scutula
Manifestation
Ectothrix
▶ forming a sheath of spores
on the outside of a hair as
well as growing within the
hair shaft.
Endothrix
▶ whose spores and
sometimes mycelia
characteristically invade the
interior of the hair shaft.
Three genera:
2. HAIR, ECTOTHRIX
▶ Microsporum- mosaic pattern around hair
3. HAIR, ENDOTHRIX
▶ Trichophyton-arthroconidia in rows
▶ Favus hyphae- T. schoenleinii
CULTURE OF CLINICAL SPECIMENS
▶Mycosel
▶ DTM
▶cornmeal
▶ Slide
culture
▶Colony characteristic
Microsporum canis (zoophilic)
▶Large muti celled spindle shaped
rough walled macroconidia
▶ 3-15 celled
▶ Terminal end,
▶ sometimes curved
▶ with a terminal knob.
▶ Microconidia –few
▶pyriform to clavate microconidia are
also present
Colony pigmentation
Microsporum gypseum (geophilic)
▶ produces a single inflammatory skin or
scalp lesion.
▶ Macroconidia
▶ Symmetrically ellipsoidal, thin-walled
4-
▶ 6 celled macroconidia. terminal or
distal ends of most macroconidia are
slightly rounded.
▶ microconidia
▶ Numerous clavate shaped are also
present
Microsporum gypseum (geophilic)
Microsporum gypseum (geophilic)
Microsporum audouinii (anthropophilic)
▶anthropophilic fungus causing non-
inflammatory infections of scalp and
skin especially in children
scalp infection of
6 years
duration
showing minimal
hair loss and
scaling
Epidermophyton floccosum
tinea cruris
Tinea pedis
▶ Other test:
▶ Urease (+)
▶ Can be differentiated from T. rubrum by
in vitro hair penetration +
Trichophyton mentagrophytes
Trichophyton mentagrophytes