A Patient Returning from a Trip to Tropical Africa Comes

question 2

Multiple Choice

A patient returning from a trip to tropical Africa comes to his physician noting scaly patches of skin along the waistband, which are lighter in color than his normal skin. A skin scraping reveals budding yeast and short septate hyphal elements, with some branching present. This organism, shown below, is most likely

• A) Malassezia furfur.
• B) Trichophyton schoenleinii.
• C) Microsporum audouinii.
• D) Trichophyton rubrum.

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