- Panel Description:
- Minor skin disorder presenting with nail discoloration (yellow, white, or brown), dystrophy (deformed), thickening, onycholysis (separation from nail bed)
- Sample Type:
- Nail Left or Right Hand, Nail Left or Right Foot
- Microorganisms Key:
- Fungal
- Protozoal
- Slow Growing
- Streptococcus Species
- Anaerobe
- Not Typically Tested by Culture
- Fungal
- Protozoal
- Slow Growing
- Streptococcus Species
- Anaerobe
- Not Typically Tested by Culture
- Target Microorganisms:
- FUNGAL
- Aspergillus flavus, fumigatus, niger, terreus
- Blastomyces dermatitidis
- Candida albicans, glabrata, parapsilosis, tropicalis
- Epidermophyton floccosum
- Fusarium oxysporum, solani
- Malassezia furfur, restricta, sympodialis, globosa
- Microsporum audouinil, canis, gypseum
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Trichophyton mentagraphophytes/
interdigitale, rubrum, soudanense, terrestre,
tonsurans, verrucosum, violaceum - Trichosporon mucoides, asahii
- ANTIBIOTIC 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
- Expected turnaround time:
Within 48 hours (TAT is the interval starting when a specimen and order are received in the laboratory and ends with release of the test result.)
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