The case of a 4-year-old boy with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis is reported. Nail sections stained with periodic acid-Schiff and Grocott-Gomori methenamine-silver showed pseudohyphae running haphazardly within the nail. Scanning electron microscopy showed hyphae penetrating into the nail plate and the hair shaft.
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