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Clinical Lesion:

Organism:

 

 

favus

T. schoenleinii

 

 

Majocchi’s granuloma

T. rubrum;  T. mentagrophytes

 

 

onychomycosis        

 
•distal subungual

T. rubrum
•proximal subungual

T. rubrum
•white superficial

T. mentagrophytes

 

 

Tinea capitis (non-inflammatory)

T. tonsurans
•endothrix

T. tonsurans
•ectothrix

M. canis

 

 

Tinea cruris

T. rubrum

 

 

Tinea manus

T. rubrum

 

 

Tinea pedis:

 
•interdigital

T. mentagrophytes
•mocassin type

T. rubrum
•inflammatory or vesicobullous type

T. mentagrophytes

 

 

Tinea imbricata

t. concentricum

 

 

inflammatory dermatophytes

mnemonic = T.CMV

 

(and “CMV” are zoophilic)

 

t. Tonsurans

 

m. Canis

t. Mentagrophytes

 

t. Verrucosum

 

 

 

Tinea capitis type by species:

•microsporum – all ectothrix
•epidermophyton – does not cause t. capitis
•trichophytim – mostly endothrix (some exceptions)