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WHat are among the most dfficult diseases to diagnose and treat?

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Mycoses (fungal diseases)

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Fungi are found __[a]__ in environments. and they can be aquired thru eating, breathing, and trauma. T/F?

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a- everywhere

b-True

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Most mycoses are not contagious with the major exception of _____

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dermatophytes

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Blastomyces coccidiodes histoplasma Paracoccidioides are four fungi that are ususally considered to be ______ ______

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true pathogens

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Candida albicans is opportunistic or a true pathogen?

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opportunistic

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The three clinical manifestations of fungal diseases?

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Fungal infections, toxicoses, allergies

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Of the three clinical manifestations, which is the most common? which is often the result of inhalation of fungal spores?

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fungal infections are most commom,

allergies are caused by fungal spores

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What factor is critical for diagnosis of most mycoses

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patient history

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Definitive diagnosis of fungal infections aoften require _____ analysis of the fungus involved

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morphological

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Fungal masses resemble _____ (a structure)

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tumors

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pulmonary fungal infections may resemble what other disease?

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TB

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Mycoses most difficult to heal because fungi often resist T cell mediated immune responses. Since fungi are biochemically similar to human cell, ANTIFUNGAL DRUGS OFTEN TARGET ______

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ergosterol

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Opportunistic infections require two step treatments in immunocompromised patients, first a [a]___ -____treatment to reduce [b]_____ then a [c] ___-___ maintenance therapy to control continuing [d]_____ and prevent new ones

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a- high dose
b-pathogens
c-low dose
d- infections

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An antifungal therapy: treatment for infections not responding to other treatments and more toxic to humans than most other treatments?
Amphotericin B/ 5-Fluorocytosine

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Amphotericin B

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Azoles are Fungistatic or Fungicidal?

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FUngistatic

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Systemic fungal diseases aquired through ______

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inhilation

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Systemic mycoses caused by pathogenic fungi are all _____

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dimorphic

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At environmental temps Mycelial thalli composed of ____. And at body temperatures they are ____ yeasts

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a-hyphae

b-spherical yeasts

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Which is the most common fungal PATHOGEN affecting humans? Coccidioides/Histoplasma

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Histoplasma

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Histoplasma causes which disease

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histoplasmosis

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Common source of histoplasma?

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bat and bird droppings in soil

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Does histoplasma cause systemic mycoses?

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yes

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Diagnosis of Histoplasmas include what two things?

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distinctive budding yeasts and spiny spores

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Amphotericin B is preferred drug for those who require treatment of which disease?

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Histoplasmosis

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Blastomyces cause which disease?
Blastomycosis
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Blastomyces is common in _____ soils rich in ____ matter
damp soils | organic matter
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Pulmonary blastomycosis can cause pulmonary _____ which are mostly aysymptomatic
lesion
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Diagnosis of Blastomycosis is ______ in laboratory cultures. Dimorphism/No morphism
Dimorphism
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Amphotericin B can also treat Blastomycosis? T/F
True
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Coccidioidomycosis is mostly in SW US and is fungi in ____ soil
desert
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Which Fungi grows as a mycelium and produces sturdy chains of asexual spores? Paracoccidioides/ Coccidioides?
Coccidioides
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Coccidioidomycosis has a germinated spore that is _______.
parasitic
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Coccidioidomycosis most commonly causes _____ conditions
pulmonary
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Coccidioidomycosis is diagnosed by the identification of ____ in patient sample
spores
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There is a skin test for Coccidioidomycosis? T/F
true
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Prevention for Coccidioidomycosis?
face mask
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Pneumocystis, candida, aspergillus, cryptococcus, mucor are 5 genera that are _______ fungi
opportunistic
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Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) part of normal ______ microbiota, most are exposed to it by age 5
respiratory
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PCP is usually ______ in immunocompetent people
asymptomatic
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PCP is very common is _____ (a disease) patients
AIDS
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PCP Diagnosis includes distinctive ______ forms of fungus in smears from lung fliud or biopsied tissue
morphological
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Treatment for PCP is primary and maintenance _____
therapy
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treatment for PCP also includes anti-______ treatments
antiprotozoan
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is Candida albicans a opportunistic pathogen or a member of normal microbiota?
normal microbiota
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Which fungi can be transmitted between individuals during sex and childbirth?
Candida albicans
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Vaginal yeast infections are a disease caused by which fungi?
candidiasis
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Candidiasis can cause systemic disease but ususally only in _______ patients
immunocompromised
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Demonstrations of clusters of budding yeasts and pseudohyphae (series of buds remaining attached to the parent cell and appearing as a filamentous hypha) is a sure diagnosis for which fungi?
candidiasis
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Treatment for candidiasis includes or oral candidiasis for kids and for vaginal infections _____ creams or oral ______
azole | fluconazole
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Aspergillosis is caused by aspergillus which can be found throughout _____
the environment
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Hypersensistivy aspergillosis and noninvasive aspergillomas: which manifests as asthma, may become chronic, and is the most common form of aspergillosis?
hypersensitivity
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Hypersensistivy aspergillosis and noninvasive aspergillomas: which is a ball-like masses of fungal hyphae, and is usually asymptomatic?
Nonivasive aspergillomas
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Systemic aspergillosis is invasion of ___ ____ systems which occurs in ____ patients
major organ | AIDS
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Treatments of asperigillosis includes _____ medicines
allergy
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For more invasive aspergillosis, _____ removal could occur
surgical
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Crytococcus neoformans primarily affects ___ patients
AIDS
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Cryptococcus neoformans is transmitted by inhalation of spores or dried yeast aerosols in ____ _____
bird droppings
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Pulmonary cryptococcosis the primary form is usually _____ and the invasive form causes chronic ____
asymptomatic | pneumonia
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Cryptococcal meningitis is the most _____ form of infection (of Crytococcals )
common
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Presence of encapsulated yeast in cerebrospinal fluid | is a diagnosis for which fungi?
Cryptococcosis
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Mucor and Rhizopus or Absidia are called Cryptococcus or Zygomycetes?
Zygomycetes
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Rhizopus is classic ____ mold
bread
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Zygomycoses are found in soil, _____ matter, or as contaminants causing ____ ____
decaying matter | food spoilage
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Pulmonary zygomycosis follows the _____ of spores.
inhalation
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Infection of the paranasal sinuses due to inhaled spores and spreads to mouth and nose this is Cutaneous zygomycosis/Rhinocerebral zygomycosis?
Rhinocerebral
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This disease can invade blood vessels producing clots causing tissue death and can invade the brain- fatal within days. Cutaneous zygomycosis/ Mucor?
Mucor
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Introduction of fungus through skin after trauma such as burns, needle punctures causing pustules, skin ulcers, abcesses, and dead patches of skin? Cutaneous zygomycosis/ Mucor?
cutaneous z
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Treatment of Zygomycoses is intravenous ____?
Amphotericin B
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What counts for most deaths associated with AIDS? | _____ fungal infections. (Pathogenic/Opportunist)
opportunists
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Fusarium, Penicillium arneffei, trichosporon beigelii, are three established/emerging pathogens?
emerging
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Fusarium, Penicillium arneffei, trichosporon beigelii, are especially problamatic for _____
AIDS patients
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Fusarium, Penicillium arneffei, trichosporon beigelii, Which of those produce toxins that accumulate when ingested with food, cause fungemia, and is resistant to ALL antifungals?
Fusarium
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Fusarium, Penicillium arneffei, trichosporon beigelii, which of those enters lungs and catheters, is drug resistant, and causes systemic disease that usually fatal?
Trichosporon
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Fusarium, Penicillium arneffei, trichosporon beigelii, which of those causes pulmonary disease after inhalation and is common in AIDS patients in SE Asia?
Penicillium marneffei
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Superficial, Cutaneous, and subcutaneous mycoses are the most _____ reported fungal diseases. All opportunistic/pathogenic?
reported | opportunistic
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Superficial, Cutaneous, and subcutaneous mycoses are spread how?
person to person
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Superficial, Cutaneous, and subcutaneous mycoses: which are most common?
superficial
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a Superficial mycoses called dermatophytoses is caused by dermatophytes previously called _____
ringworm
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Dermatophytoses is transmitted how?
person to person
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Treatment for dermatophytoses is _____ antifungals
topical
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Cutaneous and subcutaneous mycoses are caused by fungi found in ____. They enter through ____
soil | trauma
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Saprobes live on ___ organisms
dead
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Pseudallescheria, Exophiala are most common cutaneous and subcutaneous ascomytes in _____
USA
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Treatment for cutaneous and subcutaneous mycoses include ____ removal and possible ____
surgical | amputation
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Prvention of cutaneous and subcutaneous mycoses is wear
shoes
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Sporotrichosis is a cutaneous and subcutaneous mycoses and is often called ___ ___ ____
rose gardners disease
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Sporothrix schenckii is the causitive agent for Mycotoxicoses/Sporotrichosis?
Sporotrichosis
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Mycotoxins are ____ ____
fungal toxins
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Mycotoxicosis is a type of poisoning caused by ___ mycotoxins
eating
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Aflatoxins is the most well know _____
mycotoxin
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Aflatoxins is caused by Aspergillus. T/F
true
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Most prevalent in the tropics due to subsistence farming, poor food-storage conditions, and warm, moist conditions that foster growth of fungus in harvested foods. Which toxin?
Alfatoxins
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Mycotoxins can be used to make drugs? T/F
true
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Mycetismus is ____ _____
mushroom poisoning
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Amanita phalloides is known as The “death cap” mushroom because it produces the ____ ____ ____
Produces deadliest mushroom toxin
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Ergot alkaloids are produced by Claviceps purpurea. These produce Ergometrine which is useful during labor because they stimulate ______. and then constrict the ____ _____
birth contractions | blood vessels
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Ergotamine is used for treatment of?
headaches
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Occur much less frequently Type 1 or Type 3?: Result from chronic inhalation of particular fungal allergens, Allergens deep in lungs encounter antibodies, Form immune complexes in alveoli, cause inflammation, fibrosis, and death?
Type 3
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Type 1 or Type 3?: is the Most common, IgE binds the allergen, Can result in asthma, eczema, hay fever, watery eyes and nose
Type 1

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