SKIN SCRAPING FOR FUNGAL DETECTION

• Clean skin with 70% alcohol.

• Scrape edges of lesion (as edge has greatest amount of viable fungus) with a blunt scalpel blade.

• Collect skin scales in a sterile petri dish or similar wide-mouthed container or alternatively, skin scrapings may be collected in a clean, dry piece of paper folded securely with Scotch tape and labelled properly.

• If a skin scraping does not yield sufficient material, then a swab or Scotch tape could be pressed on the lesion

See also:

• Nail clipping
• Hair and Scalp
• Sputum and tracheal aspirate
• Eye swab and scraping