After Returning from a Vacation Trip to the Amazon River

After returning from a vacation trip to the Amazon River delta in Brazil, a man notices a white dirtlike substance on his axilla hair that does not wash off in the shower.His health care provider samples the hairs and sends them to the laboratory for culture.Straw-colored yeastlike colonies show the following microscopic morphology.This is most consistent with an identification of:

A) Malassezia furfur.
B) Trichosporon spp.
C) Microsporum audouinii.
D) Trichophyton rubrum.

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