A Patient with Thickened and Discolored Nails Was Diagnosed with Onychomycosis

A patient with thickened and discolored nails was diagnosed with onychomycosis. A scraping of the nail was sent for culture. Microscopic analysis of the mold colony growth revealed the following morphology. The most likely identity of this organism is

A) Microsporum canis.
B) Sporothrix schenckii.
C) Aspergillus fumigatus.
D) Trichophyton mentagrophytes.

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