3.6 fungi Flashcards by Lu Chen

Mucoromycotina make

Zygospores

Sporangiospores

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Yeasts make

Blastoconidia

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Basidiomycota make

Basidiospores

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Ascomycota make

Ascospores and asexual conidia

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What can be aerosolized

Hyphae and fungal fragments

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What accounts for most of fungal bioaerosols

Ascomycota

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3 fungal phyla

Mucoromycotina (zygomycota)
Basidiomycota
Ascomycota

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Another word for mold

Mycelium

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Pattern recognition receptors that recognize yeast PAMPS

TLR2,4, mannose receptor, dectin1

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Why are dimorphic fungal pathogens so good at infecting hosts

Expose less PAMPs so don’t stimulate immune system

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3 types of systemic mycoses

Endemic dimorphic fungi
Opportunistic yeasts
Opportunistic fungi

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What are the endemic dimorphic fungi

Histoplasma capsulatum
Coccidioides immitis
Blastomyces dermatidis

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Opportunistic yeasts

Candida albicans
Cryptococcus neoformans
Trichisporon beigelii

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Opportunistic fungi

Aspergillus

Zygomycetes (mucor, rhizopus)

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Subcutaneous mycosis

Sporothrix schenkii

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Cutaneous mycoses

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3.6 fungi Flashcards

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