A Patient Returning from a Trip to Tropical Africa Comes

Multiple Choice

A patient returning from a trip to tropical Africa comes to his physician noting scaly patches of skin along the waistband, which are lighter in color than his normal skin. A skin scraping reveals budding yeast and short septate hyphal elements, with some branching present. This organism, shown below, is most likely

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