1. Superficial Mycoses
Lec: Dr,Huda

2. Superficial Mycoses Limited to the outermost layer of the skin
4 Infections
1.Pityriasis versicolor
2.Tinea nigra
3. Black piedra
4. White piedra

3. Pityriasis Versicolor
Malassezia furfur (Pityrosporum orbiculare) is the causative agents.
Lipophilic yeast like organism
Rich in sebaceous glands
Media is supplemented with fatty acids
Exist in budding yeast,occasionally hyphal

4. Pityriasis (tinea) versicolor
A chronic, superficial fungal disease of the skin characterized by well-demarcated white, pink, fawn, or brownish lesions, often coalescing, and covered with thin scales.
The colour varies according to the normal pigmentation of the patient, exposure of the area to sunlight, and the severity of the disease.
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5. Lesions occur on the trunk, shoulders and arms, neck but rarely on the face, and fluoresce a pale greenish colour under Wood's ultra-violet light. Young adults are affected most often, but the disease may occur in childhood and old age.
World-wide in distribution but more common in tropical than temperate climates.

6. 350
350. The most common form of the disease seen in Caucasians showing typical hyperpigmented lesions on the trunk.

7. 353. Typical depigmented lesions seen in dark-skinned individuals, for example in Australian Aborigines.

8. Seborrhoeic dermatitis and dandruff:
Current evidence suggests M. furfur, combined with multifactorial host factors is also the direct
cause of seborrhoeic dermatitis, with dandruff being the mildest manifestation.
Host factors include genetic predisposition, an emotional component (possible endocrine),
changes in quantity and composition of sebum.
Lesions are red and covered with greasy scales and itching is common in the scalp.

9. Fungaemia
M. furfur has also been reported as causing catheter acquired fungaemia in neonate and adult patients undergoing lipid replacement therapy. Such patients may also develop small embolic lesions in the lungs or other organs.

10. Follicular pityriasis versicolor
Lesions are visible around the hair follicles and sebaceous glands. This is a more severe form of the disease

11. 358. Follicular pityriasis versicolor
358. Follicular pityriasis versicolor. Lesions are visible around the hair follicles and sebaceous glands. This is a more severe form of the disease. (Courtesy Dr G. Donald, Adelaide, S.A.).

12. Laboratory diagnosis
Skin scraping & KoH (10%)exam. glycerol and Parker ink solution
Under microscope , thick-walled round, budding yeast-like cells and short angular hyphal forms up to 8um in diameter(spaghetti and meat balls).
Culture is only needed in cases of fungaemia . Overlay Sabouraud's dextrose agar containing cycloheximide (actidione) with olive oil .

13. 359
359. Skin scrapings taken from patients with Pityriasis versicolor stain rapidly when mounted in 10% KOH, glycerol and Parker ink solution and show characteristic clusters of thick-walled round, budding yeast-like cells and short angular hyphal forms up to 8 um in diameter (ave. 5 um diam.). These microscopic features are diagnostic for the causative agent Malassezia furfur and culture preparations are usually not necessary.

14. 360. Colonies of Malassezia furfur on Dixon's agar
360. Colonies of Malassezia furfur on Dixon's agar. A specialized isolation medium containing glycerol-mono-oleate.

15. Treatment of pityriasis versicolor
Sodium thiosulphate solution.
Selenium sulfide.
Topical azole cream/shampoo (econazole, ketoconazole)
Terbinafine gel.

16. Tinea Nigra Exophiala werneckii is the causative agents.
Produce melanin black or brown color
Grows as yeast  Older hyphae with mycelia and conidia

17. Tinea nigra Lesion- gray to black macular palms
Diagnosis Skin scrapings with alkali stain
Cultures Sabourauds’s media pigmented yeast and hyphae

19. Black piedra Piedraia hortae-is the causative agent
Clinical feature: presence of hard nodules found along the infected hair shaft
Nodules contain asci

20. Cultures –
asexual state older cultures teleomorphic (asci ,which contain spindle shaped ascospores)

21. White Piedra Trichosporon beigelii is the causative agents.
Hair- soft ,pasty,cream colored growth
Microscopy : septate hyphae that develop into arthroconidia

22. White Piedra Grows in media without cyclohexamide
Cultures are pasty and white developed deep radiating furrows and become yellow and creamy
Microscopic examination septate hypae that develops into arthroconidia

23. Superficial mycoses:
Trichosporon beigelii
Cause of white piedra.
Piedraia hortae
Cause of black piedra.

24. Treatment
Skin removal of the organism by: Selenium sulfide Thiosulfate Salicylic acid Hyposulfite inhibition of ergosterol by: miconazole

25. Cutaneous mycoses Skin , hair & nails Evoke cellular immune response
Dermatophytes(keratophilic)
Clinical manifestationsringworm or tinea.
Etiology Microsporum Trichophyton Epidermophyton

26. General characteristics of Macroconidia and Microconidia of Dermatophytes
Genus
Macroconidia
Microconidia
Microsporum
Numerous, thick walled,rough
Rare
Epidermophyton
Numerous, smooth walled
Absent
Trichophyton
Rare,thin walled, smooth
Abundant

27. Microsporum

28. Trichophyton

29. Cutaneous mycoses
Classifications: Anatomic location Tinea pedis Tinea capitis Tinea corporis Tinea cruris Ecologic location Geophilic (from soil) Zoophilic (animal) Anthropophilic (human)

30. Cutaneous mycoses THE IDENTIFICATION REACTION(ID)
Patients infected with a dermatophyte may show a lesion, often on the hands, from which no fungi can be recovered or demonstrated.
It is believed that these lesions, which often occur on the dominant hand (i.e. right-handed or left-handed), are secondary to immunological sensitization to a primary (and often unnoticed) infection located somewhere else (e.g. feet).
These secondary lesions will not respond to topical treatment but will resolve if the primary infection is successfully treated.

31. Diagnosis Diagnosis is based upon: 1. Anatomical site infected
2. Type of lesion
3. Examination with a Woods lamp
4. Examination of KOH-treated skin,hair & nail scales
5-Culture of the organism (Identification based on the conidia).

32. Differential diagnosis
In a differential diagnosis you must consider:
1.     Leprosy
2.     Secondary syphilis
3.     Pityriasis rosea      
   4.     Psoriasis        
5.     Nummular eczema
        6.     Lichen planus
        7.     Alopecia areata
        8.     Trichotillomania
      
   9-     Contact dermatitis.