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Tinea nigra

Skin scrapings mounted in 10% KOH showing pigmented brown to dark olivaceous (dematiaceous) septate hyphal elements and 2-celled yeast cells producing annelloconidia typical of Exophiala werneckii. (Courtesy of Dr J.W. Rippon, University of Chicago, U.S.A.).