Cladophialophora Coccidioides sp. Dermatophytes Epicoccum spp. Zygomycetes Microsporum spp.
Conidiophores are hyphalike.
Microconidia are 1-celled, smooth, thin walled, hyaline, ovoid to clavate, solitary. Salient characteristics Isolates of Microsporum produce macroconidia that are spindle shaped to elliptic, thin to thick walled, echinulate to roughened. These isolates also produce 1-celled, smooth, hyaline, ovoid to clavate microconidia. Microsporum differs from Trichophyton and Epidermophyton by having echinulate to roughened macroconidia. Key to the More Common Species of Microsporum 1.