3.16 fungi and treatment Flashcards
(26 cards)
Headache, confusion, lymphocytes in CSF
Cryptococcus
Best drug for candida
Fluconazole
Best drug for cryptococcus
Fluconazole
Soil contaminated by pidgeons
Cryptococcus
Fever, neutropenia, sob after antibiotics
Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis
Air crescent sign
Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis
Hyphae with narrow angle (45 degree) branching that’s septate
Aspergillus
Flare up of an existing asthma
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillus
Fungal ball inside an existing cavity
Mycetoma (from Aspergillus)
Wedge shaped infarct
Aspergillus
Angioinvasive
Aspergillus
Zygomycosis
Person with diabetic ketoacidosis prone to
Zygomycosis
Drug of choice for Zygomycosis
Amphotericin B
What requires aggressive surgery
Zygomycosis
Bird and bat droppings
Histoplasmosis
Intracellular pathogen / inside macrophages
Histoplasma
Caused disseminated disease in immuno compromised (fever, enlarged liver and spleen, low WBC, Ig, platelets)
Histoplasmosis
Causes pericarditis, flu like pulmonary illness, arthralgias, fibrosing mediastinum, R heart failure
Histoplasmosis
Broad based budding
Blastomycosis
Most common blastomycosis symptoms
Pneumonia
Skin ulcers (chronic, dry)
Bone, make GU tract
Lab hazard
Coccidiodomycosis
CNS infections
Cryptococcus
Coccidioidomycosis
Spreading up arm in a lymphatic pattern
Sporotrichoid spread
- sporotrix schenckii
- leishmania
Easiest to treat
C albicans
