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Under a magnification of 100X, and processed using sodium hydroxide (NaOH), this photomicrograph depicts the histopathologic changes in the structure of a hair shaft, from a patient with ringworm, infected with the dermatophyte, Trichophyton tonsurans. The fact that this infection had invaded the internal structure of the hair shaft, makes this infection an endothrix, rather than an exothrix, which would be confined to the hair’s exterior surface. Note that the hair stub was filled with anthrospores, derived from small segments of the organism’s hyphae.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Dr. Lucille K. Georg
Creation Date: 1968
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