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. 2019 Oct 9;12:751–758. doi: 10.2147/CCID.S215661

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(A) Endothrix hair invasion with green, fluorescent hyphae and Trichophyton violaceum spores (Calcoflour white stain, fluorescent microscope, ×400). (B) Fluorescent septate hyphae of Trichophyton rubrum against a darker background in a nail sample (Calcoflour white stain, fluorescent microscope, ×100). (C) Anterior surface of a Trichophyton rubrum culture. (D) Reverse surface of a Trichophyton rubrum culture. (E) Microscope image of blue, thin walled Trichophyton rubrum macroconidia showing the clavate shape and multiseptate, smooth walled structure (lacto phenol cotton blue stain, ×100).