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A patient made a self-diagnosis of athlete’s foot (tinea pedis) and began using a product adveised on television. The condition improved but did not clear and then the patient showed himself to a Dermatologist. A skin scraping was sent to the laboratory for culture, including culture for fungi. The fungal culture yielded a slow growing colony, which produced a few small microconidia. This is consistent with isolation of a dermatophyte of the genera –

ATrichophyton
BMicrosporum
CEpidermophyton
DTrichosporon
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