The Genus Epidermophyton Is Characterized by

The genus Epidermophyton is characterized by

A) large spindle-shaped, rough-walled macroconidia with thick walls that contain 4 to 15 septa and small club-shaped microconidia.
B) predominate spherical, teardrop-shaped or club-shaped microconidia and smooth, club-shaped, thin-walled macroconidia with 8 to 10 septa borne singly at the terminal ends of hyphae or on short conidiophores.
C) numerous smooth, thin-walled, club-shaped, multiseptate macroconidia, which are rounded at the tip and are borne singly on a conidiophore or in groups of two or three, no microconidia, and numerous chlamydoconidia.
D) spherical, teardrop-shaped microconidia and rough, club-shaped, thick-walled macroconidia with 8 to 10 septa borne on short conidiophores.

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