Examples of skin and nail scraping microscopy in mycoses: visualization of mycelial threads, arthrospore chains, and pathogenic fungal elements in native preparations.
Collection of positive skin and nail scrapings for pathogenic fungi
🙏 The images were kindly provided by clinical laboratory diagnostics physician Victoria Gerbutova, Krasnodar.
Microscopic view of arthroconidia and sporulated mycelium in 20% KOH preparations from skin and nail mycoses caused by dermatophytes.
Microscopic examination of a nail plate scraping for suspected onychomycosis. Detection of branching fungal mycelial threads in a native preparation.
Microscopic view of a skin scraping from the groin folds: clusters of fungal mycelium filaments in a native preparation, indicative of inguinal dermatophytosis (epidermophytosis).
