- COMMON SIGNS & SYMPTOMS:
- Skin disorder presenting with nail discoloration (yellow, white, or brown), dystrophy (deformed), thickening, onycholysis (separation from nail bed)
- SPECIMEN TYPES:
- SWAB
- Nail (toe), Nail (finger)
- FUNGAL
Aspergillus flavus, fumigatus, niger, terreus
Candida albicans, glabrata, parapsilosis, tropicalis
Cutaneotrichosporon mucoides, Trichosporon asahii
Epidermophyton floccosum
Fusarium oxysporum, Neocosmospora solani
Malassezia furfur, restricta, sympodialis, globosa
Microsporum audouinii, canis; Nannizzia gypseum
Trichophyton mentagrophytes/interdigitale, rubrum, tonsurans, violaceum
- BACTERIAL
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- RESISTANCE
ACT, MIR, FOX, ACC Groups
CTX-M1 (15), M2 (2), M9 (9), M8/25 Groups
dfr (A1, A5), sul (1, 2)
ermB, C; mefA
IMP, NDM, VIM Groups
OXA-48, OXA-51
qnrA1, A2, B2
SHV, KPC Groups
tet B, tet M