1. Direct examination of clinical specimens for diagnosis of sporotrichosis.
Direct examination of clinical specimens for diagnosis of sporotrichosis. (A) KOH mount of a tissue fragment from a cat with sporotrichosis, showing cigar-shaped (arrow) and budding (dashed arrow) S. schenckii yeast cells. Note the high fungal burden in the specimen. (B) Direct examination (10% KOH) of the pus from a lesion of a human patient with sporotrichosis, showing nonspecific budding yeast cells. Bars, 10 μm. (Courtesy of Rosani Santos Reis.)‏
Mônica Bastos de Lima Barros et al. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 2011; doi: /CMR