Microscopy features of Malassezia fungi in skin scrapes: characteristic unipolar budding of yeast cells in a 20% potassium hydroxide (KOH) preparation.
Unipolar budding is a distinctive feature of fungi of the genus Malassezia. In English-language sources, this form is compared to peanut kernels. Skin scrape, KOH 20%, magnification x400+zoom.
👉 Material kindly provided by medical laboratory technician Dmitry Emelyanov.
Microscopic features of Malassezia furfur in KOH preparations: criteria for mycelial and spore detection, differential diagnosis of onychomycosis and contamination.
Microscopic view of arthroconidia and sporulated mycelium in 20% KOH preparations from skin and nail mycoses caused by dermatophytes.
Microscopy of skin scrapes: detecting branching septate dermatophyte mycelium in native preparations with 20% KOH for cutaneous mycoses.
