Dermatophyte species, microscopic and cultural examination

✍ Scribed by Per Onsberg

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 201 KB
• Volume: 67
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-486X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00470748

✦ Synopsis

The dermatophytes Epidermophyton floccosum, Microsporum canis, Trichophyton mentagrophytes var. interdigitale, T. rubrum, and T. verrucosum were compared with respect to the direct microscopic examination of a clinical material and the number of colonies obtained by culture. It was found that the results of microscopy as well as of culture depended to a marked extent upon which species were the cause of the mycosis. The extremes were E. floccosum and T. mentagrophytes var. interdigitale which showed 7.5% and 32.5% isolates with negative microscopic findings and 45.5% and 5.0% isolates with larger than or equal to 10 colonies.