yeast and molds

Microsporum audouinii

slow-growing dermatophyte that causes cutaneous mycoses (tinea capitis)

can have macroconidia that are club-shaped, rare or absent microconidia

Microsporum canis

Microsporum gypseum (Nannizzia gypsea)

Epidermophyton floccosum

Trichophyton mentagrophytes

Trichophyton rubrum

Trichophyton tonsurans

more branched than rubrum, same occasional cigar-shaped macroconidia

Trichophyton schoenleinii

Trichophyton violaceum

Trichophyton verrucosum

also have teardrop microconidia and rat tailed macroconidia

Cladophialophora carrionii

Exophiala dermatitidis

Exophiala jeanselmi

Fonsecaea pedrosoi

chromoblastomycosis

Phialophora verrucosa

chromoblastomycosis

Pseudoallescheria boydii

teleomorph form has cleistothecia, anamorph form has elliptoid microconidia

Sporothrix schenckii

dimorphic

yeast form- cigar shaped

Blastomyces dermatitidis

dimorphic

Coccidioides immitis

dimorphic

Histoplasma capsulatum

dimorphic

Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

yeast phase: “ship’s wheel”

Taloromyces marneffei

dimorphic

Aspergillus spp

Rhizopus spp

Lichtheimia spp

Mucor spp