FUNGAL INFECTIONS

FUNGAL INFECTIONS

1. YEASTS

   • UNICELLULAR

2. DERMATOPHYTES

   • MULTICELLULAR
     • SEPTATE HYPHAE INVADE & GROW IN KERATINISED STRUCTURES
   • TRICHOPHYTON
     • SKIN, HAIR, NAILS
   • MICROSPORUM
     • SKIN, HAIR
   • EPIDERMOPHYTON
     • SKIN, NAILS
   • ECTOTHRIX
     • EXTRAPILARY (IN PROFUSION OUTSIDE HAIR SHAFT)
     • SMALL SPORED 2-3um
       • MCROSPORUM
     • LARGE SPORED 5- 10um
       • MICROSPORA
     • DETECTED BY WOODS LIGHT
     • HAIR APPEARS DULL, LIFELESS
   • ENDOTHRIX
     • INTRAPILARY HYPHAE FORMING THE MYCELIUM & SPORES IN HAIR SHAFT
     • NOT DETECTABLE BY WOODS LIGHT
     • REDUCE PHYSICAL STRENGTH
     • BREAKAGE CLOSE TO SCALP

3. ANTHROPOPHILIC (MAN TO MAN)

4. ZOOPHILIC (ANIMAL TO MAN)

5. GEOPHILIC (ENVIRONMENT TO MAN)

6. TINEA

   • CAPITIS (SCALP)
   • BARBAE
   • FACIEI
   • SMALL PATCH
   • RINGWORM
     • SERPIGINOUS CUTANEOUS LESION EXTENDING OUTWARDS
     • INFLAMED ANNULUS
   • SYCOSIS
     • FOLLICULITUS
   • KERIONS
     • SEVERE INFLAMED DEEP ABSCESS, PAINFUL, BOGGY PURULENT MASS