If a Wood's lamp examination of skin lesions reveals a golden-yellow fluorescence, then what superficial mycoses are expected?

a. Malassezia furfur
b. Trichosporon spp.
c. Candida albicans
d. Cryptococcus neoformans


A
M. furfur causes a skin infection called tinea versicolor, which may exhibit golden-yellow fluo-rescence under a Wood's lamp.

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