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Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassEurotiomycetes
- OrderOnygenales
- FamilyArthrodermataceae
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Research
4,479 papers- MICROSPORUM CANIS DERMATOMYCOSIS.The Medical journal of Australia · 1965
- Tinea Capitis Due to Microsporum canis.The New England journal of medicine · 2021
- Tinea Capitis by Microsporum audouinii: Case Reports and Review of Published Global Literature 2000-2016.Mycopathologia · 2017
- Biofilm formation by Microsporum canis.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2017
- [Microsporum fluorescence].Mykosen · 1970
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Wikidata facts
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- Parent taxon
- Arthrodermataceae
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- Macroconidia Microsporum canis.JPG
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- Microsporum
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- Microsporum audouinii
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- Microsporum
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- microsporia
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- Gruby
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Microsporum is a genus of fungi that causes tinea capitis, tinea corporis, ringworm, and other dermatophytoses (fungal infections of the skin). Microsporum forms both macroconidia (large asexual reproductive structures) and microconidia (smaller asexual reproductive structures) on short conidiophores. Macroconidia are hyaline, multiseptate, variable in form, fusiform, spindle-shaped to obovate, 7–20 by 30–160 μm in size, with thin or thick echinulate to verrucose cell walls. Their shape, size and cell wall features are important characteristics for species identification. Microconidia are hyaline, single-celled, pyriform to clavate, smooth-walled, 2.5–3.5 by 4–7 um in size and are not diagnostic for any one species.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Microsporum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.