“I’m terrible at Trivial Pursuit. Everything I know is significant.” “There are three levels of knowledge: trivia, significa, and necessaria. Information that you may regard as trivial is likely to be regarded by your attending as necessary.” 1 The suffix…
1 A girl from southern India is anemic, and her school performance has declined. On examination, the child has dark, mascara-like makeup around her eyes. You suspect the makeup is the cause of these medical and social problems. What is…
Key Points Fungal pathogens affect the skin in many ways: superficial fungi, such as the dermatophytes, rarely cause systemic disease. Subcutaneous mycoses, such as sporotrichosis, mycetoma, and chromoblastomycosis, are typically caused by minor, inadvertent trauma that introduces environmental fungi into…