tinea versicolour

1. What Is Tinea Versicolor?
Tinea versicolor is a fungal infection that
causes small patches of discolored spots on
your skin. It's also called pityriasis
versicolor. It results from a type of yeast
that naturally lives on your skin. When the
yeast grows out of control, the skin disease,
which appears as a rash, is the result.

2. Specific signs and symptoms of the infection
include:
Patches that are white, pink, red,
or brown and may be lighter or
darker than the skin around them

6. Signs and Symptoms of Tinea
Versicolor
Acidic bleach from the growing
yeast causes areas of skin to be a
different color than the skin
around them. These can be
individual spots or patches.

7. Tinea Versicolor Diagnosis
what the rash looks like.
If they need more information,
these tests can help:
•Wood lamp (black light)
examination. ultraviolet light,
which may make the affected
areas appear a fluorescent
coppery orange color if they're the
result of tinea versicolor.
•Microscopy using potassium
hydroxide (KOH). removes cells
from skin, soaks them in
potassium hydroxide, then looks
at them under a microscope

8. Malassezia furfur
Pitryosporum Furfur
oval yeast reproduce by unipolar budding

9. Culture dull buff colonies on
agar supplemented with lipid
olive oil

10. Treatment options include:
•Topical antifungals. You put
these directly to your skin
clotrimazole, ketoconazole, miconazole,
selenium sulfide, and terbinafine
Antifungal pills. These may be
used to treat more serious or
recurrent cases of tinea versicolor.