Dermatophyte

Hair/skin/nails Skin/nails
Hair/skin
Trichophyton Epidermophyton
Microsporum

Many MICROCONIDIA Only hyphae Large rough walled may cell MACROCONIDIA
Smooth elongated seen Large smooth walled
Macroconidia few or clubbed shape
absent Spindle- Broadly Rare Macroconidia
shaped with spindle- bizarre
Surface of the Surface of the Surface of the Surface of the Colony violet Surface of the curved tip shaped with shaped
colony buff and colony velvety colony white to colony white color colony, round ends
Surface of the
powdery or with rugose buff, fluffy and wrinkled sometimes Surface of the Surface of the Salmon colony olive
white and folds, color yellow or gray colony white colony yellow colored green to mustard
downy variable fluffy center brown with colony color, Colony
with golden white border folded and lumpy
yellow border
Reverse of the Reverse of the Reverse of the Reverse of the
colony brown to colony mahogany colony deep red, Reverse of the Reverse of the Reverse of the
colony white
tan dark red or to reddish-brown wine, and colony yellow colony cream, colony orange
sometimes
yellow sometimes sometimes brown that dulls to tan to red to brown
yellow
yellow or yellow or colorless brown with age brown
colorless

Trichophyton Trichophyton Microsporum Epidermophyton

Trichophyton Trichophyton Trichophyton Trichophyton Microsporum Microsporum
mentagrophytes tonsurans audouinii floccosum
rubrum schoenleinii violaceum verrucosum canis gypseum