Fungi Flashcards

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Unlike bacteria
Unlike plant
Cell wall

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Eukaryotic
Lack property of photosynthesis
Chitin

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Fungal disease usually…..

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Chronic

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3
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Classification depending on morphology

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1 yeast unicellular produced by budding
2 mold multicellular filamentous
3 dimorphic fungi mostly pathogenic

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4
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Branching cylindrical tubules

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Hyphe

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5
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Mass of interwined hyphe called

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Mycelium

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Hyphe divided into….. And other ….

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Septate
Non septate

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Parasitic form seen in

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Tissu, exudates, or enriched media at 37
Seen as yeast

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8
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In nature or if grown at 25 exis as

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Mold (mycelia)

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9
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Why it’s difficult to make antimycotic therapy

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Because drugs that inhabit the synthesis of DNA and RNA or protein in fungal may have the same effect on human cells

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10
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Fungal cell wall.
Rigid cell wall of…

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Chitin

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Fungal membrane contain……. Where as mammalian cells contain……
This difference is the basic for…

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Ergosterol
Cholesterol
Fungal sensitivity to intimycotic agent

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12
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Asexual spores formed by….

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Modification of hyphe

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Pityriasis versicolore or……. Caused by…….

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Tinea versicolor
Malassezia furfur mould septate hyphae

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Disease of pityriasis versicolor

Infected area recognized by..

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Dépigmentation of infected skin may be accompanied by itching
By discoloration

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Diagnosis of
Pityriasis versicolor
Tinea versicolor

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Microscopic examination koh
Treated skin scraping

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The lesion of pityriasis versicolor appear fluorescence yellow orange under…….. Lesion found in……

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Wood light
Trunk and arms

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17
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Tenia Nigra….

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Brown to black macular lesion usually on the hands and feet and the causative agent fungus found in soil and environment

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Piedra is infection of……. Caused by…….. And……….

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Scalp hair
Piedraia hortae and Trichosporon Beigelii

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p.hortae is a dark pigmented……. cause….., Small brown black modules are formed on……..
Dark coloured thick…….

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Mould
Black piedra
Hair surface
Hyphae

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20
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Trichosporon Beigelii is not…… Infect………. Causing…….
White nodules are formed having………

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Dark coloured
Course of hair (axillary, facial, genital)
White piedra
No pigmented hyphae

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Diagnosis of peidra

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Microscopic examination koh
p.hortea show dark coloured branching thick septete hyphae+Ascospores sexal
Trichosporon Beigelii show soft white or pale brown hyphae+arthrospores

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22
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Another name of cutaneous mycosis

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Dermatophytosis
Ring worm
Tinea

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Ring worm affect……

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Keratinized tissue of nails and hair and skin

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…. Infect skin and hair and nails
….infect skin and hair not nails
….infect skin and nails

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Trichophyton Rubrum
Microsporum
M.canis

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Tenea corporis
Ring worm occur any where on the body
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Tinea pedis
Athletes foot Toe webs and sole of feets
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Tinea unguium
Onchomycosis Infections of nails
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Tinea manuum
Infections of hands
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Tinea capitis
Affect scalp of children transmitted by comb in school going children
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Tinea cruris
Jock itch Infections of groin, perineum, perianal
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Tinea barbae
Ring worm of bearded area on face
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Skin ring worm common in ......
Moist sweaty skin folds Obisity increase susceptibility to infection beneath breast and tight clothes help infection in groin
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Maceration and moisture help setting infections between......
Toes (athletes foot)
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Lab diagnosis of tinea
Skin scraped from advancing edge (septete hyphae) Dermatophytes fluoresce seen under u.v light (wood lamp)
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Treatment of ring worm Tinea
Topical therapy Tolneftate,Naftifne,clotrimazole.miconazole Oral therapy griseofulvin or ketoconazole or allylamine (nails bed infections)
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Subcutaneous mycosis
Introduced by injury through the skin Involved subcutaneous tissue،lymphatic tissue, and nearby tissue Rarely spread to distan organ
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Etiology of sporotrichosis
Sporothrix schenckii Dimorphic fungi Cigar shaped yeast in tissue
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Sporothrix schenckii is....... found in soil in decaying organic matter. Acquired by....
Ubiquitous saprophytes Traumatic inoculation through skin of Gardeners, farmers
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Pathology of sporothrix schenckii
Pyogenic and granulomatous inflammation
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Skin lesions of sporothrix schenckii begin as...... ....... Is most often involved ...... Later...........
Painless papule Hand Papule Ulcerate, draining lymph channels thickened or firm nodules
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Diagnosis of Sporothrix schenckii
Specimens Direct microscopic examination Culture sda,bhia
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In sporothrix schenckii Koh preparation usually........ Due to.....
Negative Small number of fungi
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Asteroid bodies in the lesion of......
Sporothrix schenckii Is central fungus cell surrounded by refractile esinophilic halo called Splendor hoeppli phenomenon due to complex deposition around the organisms
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Culture of sporothrix schenckii
Septate hyphae Very thin carry flower like cluster of small conidia
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Treatment of sporothrix schenckii
Itraconazole Sever amphotericin B
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Chromoblastomycosis?
Chronic warty mycosis of the skin and subcutaneous tissue cused by Phialophora and cladosporium genera which are pigment producing filamentous fungi
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Chromoblastomycosis occur in.....or..... Appear as..... that develop after several years into......... Extension is.... And...... And doesn't involve.....
Foot or legs Papule Flat scaly or warty like structure under the feet like tips of Cauliflower Slow Painless Lymphatic vessels
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Lab diagnosis of chromoblastomycosis depending on...
Culture and isolation
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In chromoblastomycosis Diagnosis Organisms are called........... Fungi because they grow as......... The pigment accumulates in the mycelia cell wall in culture and in tissue......
Dematiaceous Black colonies Sclerotic bodies
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Treatment of chromoblastomycosis
Surgery and antifungal therapy Itraconazole , amphotericin B and fluorocytosine
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Mycetoma is........ It characterised by......... It's typically affect the........... Predominantly occur in......
Chronic granulomatous disease of the skin and subcutaneous tissue which sometimes involve muscle bone and neighboring organ Tumefaction, abscess formation, and fistulae Lower extremities Farm workers
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Mycetoma swelling is ..... And contain...... ...... Containing small granules.... Is discharge through..... Which opens on the skin surface
Nodular Sinuses Mucopus Colonies Sinuses
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Diagnosis of mycetoma
Specimens exudates from sinuses And biopsy from granules Culture
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Treatment of mycetoma
Surgical excision Ketoconazole 1,3 years Actinomycetes mycetoma respond to antibiotics and sulphonamide