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In this procedure, your doctor takes a skin sample, places it on a microscope slide soaked with KOH, and looks for yeast or hyphae fungi under a microscope. Your doctor might also take a biopsy ...

Fungi are tiny organisms that you can only see through a microscope. Many different types ... a toenail, or the skin under the nail, called the nail bed. Photo credit: iStock/Getty Images It ...

a simple test to detect yeast under a microscope; culture tests, which identify the specific strain of candida; and skin scraping, which examines the affected area for fungal overgrowth.

For many women, the symptoms of thrush (a yeast infection ... sample of vaginal discharge to examine under a microscope or send to a laboratory for a fungal culture. A bladder infection, also ...