5. Surface infection
Dead layer of skin
No inflammatory response
Cosmetic effects
Eg. Tinea versicolor, Tinea
nigra & Piedra.
Cutaneous infection:
Dermatophytosis/ tinea/ ringworm
cornified layer of skin, hair, nail
Inflammatory & allergic
response
Candidiasis
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6. Tinea Versicolor
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Tinea versicolor (or pityriasis versicolor) chronic recurrent condition
involving the superficial layer (stratum corneum) of skin.
Caused by a lipophilic fungus Malassezia furfur.
7. Clinical Manifestations
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Characterized by flat-round scaly patches of
hypo- to hyperpigmentation of skin.
Lesions - non-inflammatory and non-pruritic
Areas rich in sebaceous glands - commonly
involved - neck, chest, or upper arms
Disease is more common in moist humid
areas.
A B
8. Localized infection of
stratum corneum
Painless brown or black
macular lesions- hands
Causative agent:
Hortaea wernickii
(Exophiala werneckii),
black coloured fungus
9. Infection of hair
Characterized by firm,
irregular nodules along
the hair shaft
Black piedra Piedraia
hortae
White piedra
Trichosporon beigelii
10. Laboratory Diagnosis
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Direct microscopy: Skin scrapings
examined - after treating with 10% KOH.
Mixture of budding yeasts and short
septate hyphae seen -spaghetti and
meatballs appearance- Malassezia
furfur.
11. Laboratory Diagnosis (Cont..)
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Culture: SDA with olive oil overlay - fried egg colonies- Malassezia
furfur appear after incubating for 57 days at 3235属C
Urease test: positive
Woods lamp examination: golden yellow fluorescence.
White Piedra- : Trichosporon beigelii, yeast like fungus, arthrospores
Black Piedra- Piedraia hortae- Phaeoid fungus
12. Dermatophytoses
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Dermatophytoses (or tinea or ringworm) - most common superficial
mycoses affecting skin, hair and nail- infecting keratinized tissues-
inflammatory & HST reaction
Classification
Trichophyton species: Infect skin, hair and nail
Microsporum species: Infect skin and hair
Epidermophyton species: Infect skin and nail
13. Pathogenesis
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Acquired by direct contact with soil, animals or humans infected with
fungal spores
Predisposing factors - moist humid skin and tight ill-fitting underclothing
Fungal products: local inflammation
Hypersensitivity to fungal antigens
Severity depends on the infecting fungi, immune status of the host and
the site of lesion
15. Ring worm infections (Tinea)
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A B
C D
A. Tinea capitis (favus);
B. Tinea faciei;
C. Tinea pedis;
D. Tinea corporis.
16. TENIA CAPITIS
Favus: dense crusts
(scutula) develop in the hair
follicles leads to alopecia
& scarring
Kerioon: boggy lesions with marked
inflammatory reactions
19. DISEASE COMMON CAUSATIVE AGENTS
Tinea capitis Microsporum any spp., trichophyton most
spp.
Favus T.schoenleinii, T. violaceum, M. gypseum
Tinea barbae T. rubrum, T. mentagrophytes, T.
verrucosum
Tinea imbricata T. concentricum
Tinea corporis T. rubrum & any other dermatophyte
Tinea cruris E. floccosum, T. rubrum
Tinea pedis T. rubrum, E. floccosum
Ectothrix hair
infection
Microsporum spp., T. rubrum, T.
mentagrophytes
Endothrix hair
infection
T.schoenleinii, T. tonsurans, T. violaceum
20. Sample collection
Scraping from the edge of the lesions
Infected hair to be plucked out ectothrix /
endothrix
Infected nail clippings
KOH mount
Culture on SDA with antibiotics &
cycloheximide incubated at R.T.
Growth slow 1-3 weeks
22. Laboratory Diagnosis
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Woods Lamp Examination:
Positive for various Microsporum species &Trichophyton schoenleinii
Fluorescence is due to the presence of pteridine pigment in cell wall
23. Laboratory Diagnosis (Cont..)
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KOH mount or calcofluor white stain - thin septate
hyaline hyphae with arthroconidia
Hair arthroconidia on the surface of shaft
(ectothrix) or within the shaft (endothrix)
24. Laboratory Diagnosis (Cont..)
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Culture:
SDA containing cycloheximide - incubated at 2628属C for 4 weeks
Potato dextrose agar better sporulation
Identification is made by:
Macroscopic appearance of the colonies - rate of growth, texture,
pigmentation, colony topography
25. Macroconidia of various dermatophyte species
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C D E
C. Trichophyton mentagrophytes;
D. Microsporum canis;
E. Epidermophyton floccosum
26. Microscopic appearance of various dermatophyte
species (LPCB mount)
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A. Trichophyton mentagrophytes; B. Microsporum canis; C. Epidermophyton floccosum.
28. Laboratory Diagnosis (Cont..)
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Other Methods of Diagnosis:
Hair perforation test:
Fungi pierce hair producing wedge-shaped perforations
Positive T.mentagrophytes and M.canis
Urease test: Trichophyton mentagrophytes is urease positive
29. SUBCUTANEOUS MYCOSES
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The agents of subcutaneous mycoses usually inhabit the soil
They enter the skin by traumatic inoculation with contaminated material-
thorn prick
Tend to produce granulomatous lesions in the subcutaneous tissue
Eg Mycetoma, rhinosporidiosis, sporotrichosis, chromoblastomycosis
31. Mycetoma
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Chronic, slowly progressive granulomatous infection of the skin and
subcutaneous tissues
Triad: Swelling, discharging sinuses and presence of granules in the
discharge
Maduramycosis or Madura foot - first described in Madurai-John Gill (1842)
Eumycetoma caused by fungi
Actinomycetoma Caused by bacteria
Bacterial (botryomycosis)- Staphylococcus, Streptomyses
32. Clinical Manifestations
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Clinical triad
1. Tumor like swelling (tumefaction)
2. Discharging sinuses
3. Granules in sinuses
Commonest site Feet (Hands, back)
Osteolytic or osteosclerotic bony lesions
Usually painless
33. Laboratory Diagnosis
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Specimen Collection:
Grains/ Granules/ biopsy collected on sterile gauze by pressing the
sinuses from periphery or by using a loop
Direct Examination:
Granules washed in sterile saline; crushed between the slides and
examined
34. Laboratory Diagnosis (Cont..)
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Macroscopic appearance of granules - color, size, shape, texture
Suspected Eumycetoma :
KOH mount - hyphae of 26 亮m width along with chlamydospores at margin
Suspected Actinomycetoma:
Gram staining - filamentous gram positive bacilli (0.51 亮m wide)
Modified acid fast stain Nocardia is weekly acid fast
36. Laboratory Diagnosis (Cont..)
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Culture:
Granules - best specimen for culture
Both fungal (SDA) and bacteriological media (Lowenstein Jensen medium,
Blood agar) - inoculated
Eumycetoma agents - growth rate, colony morphology, production of
conidia and their sugar assimilation patterns
37. Other Subcutaneous Mycoses
Sporotrichosis- Lymhocutaneous
Chrmoblastomycosis- slow growing and polymorphic - verrucose (most
common type), crusted, ulcerative and nodular or tumor-like lesions,
Caused by darkly pigmented fungi- that produce a characteristic morphology
called sclerotic body- Fonsecaea pedrosoi, Phialophora verrucosa, Cladosporium
carrionii
Rhinosporidiosis- rhinosporidium seeberi-
now considered protista- not cultivable
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38. Laboratory Diagnosis (Cont..)
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Microscopy-
Asteroid body - central basophilic yeast cell surrounded
by radiating extensions of eosinophilic mass, composed
of antigen-antibody complexes- sporotrichosis, also
observed in zygomycosis, candidiasis, aspergillosis and
blastomycosis
Sclerotic bodies: brown thick walled round cells (512
亮m size) with multiple internal transverse septa - also
called Medlar bodies or muriform cells or copper
pennies.- Chromoblastomycosis
39. Laboratory Diagnosis (Cont..)
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Culture: Definitive tool for diagnosis.
Specimens - inoculated onto SDA and blood agar in duplicate - incubated
at 25属C and 37属C simultaneously - S. schenckii is a dimorphic fungus
At 25属C: Produces mycelial form - slender delicate hyphae with conidia
arranged in - flower-like pattern.
At 37属C: Produces yeast form - moist creamy white colonies which
turn brown black in 1014 days.
A B
40. OPPORTUNISTIC MYCOSES OF SKIN
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Penicillium marneffei - thermally dimorphic fungus, Renamed as -
Talaromyces marneffei
Causes opportunistic infection in HIV-infected patients.
Skin lesions: Warty lesions mimicking that of molluscum
contagiosum
Lab Diagnosis- Histopathological staining- oval or elliptical yeast
cells with central septation
Culture on SDA- black pigment
41. Candidiasis
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Candida species are the most common fungal agent to cause lesions of
skin and mucosa.
Oropharyngeal candidiasis : white, adherent, painless patch
Vulvovaginitis: pruritus, pain, and vaginal discharge (whitish curd like in
severe cases)
Balanitis and balanoposthitis
Esophageal candidiasis