Fungi Flashcards
(27 cards)
C. Albicans treatment
Flucanoazole
C. glabrata
2nd most common
Flu experienced
C. parapsilosis
Central catheters
C. krusei
resistant to flucanoazole
Heme maligancies
C. lusitaniea
ampho-b R
C. neoformans
HIV
C. gattii
Non HIV people
Spaghetti and meatballs
malassezia furfur
Bird and bat droppings
Histoplasmosis
Valley fever
Coccidioidomycosis
Mariner’s wheel
Paracoccidioides brasillensis
Rose gardener
Sporothrix schenckii
Fruit bodies - 45 degree branching
Aspergillus
Wheezing and productive sputum
Acute bronchopulmonary aspergillus
Farmer’s Lung
90 degree hyphae
zygomycosis
Pneumocystis jiroveci (carinii)
Opportunistic infection of HIV
-Bacteria and fungus like
The only antifungal that doesn’t work on the cell wall
Pyrimadine
Diagnostic tests for cryptococcus
- India Ink
- Soap bubble lesions- gelatinous masses of fungi grow in the meninges or expand the Virchow-Robin spaces
- Polysaccharide that stains intense red
fungus balls
aspergillosis
Rhinocerebral mucormycosis
Of zygomycosis
Causes local tissue necrosis, invade arterial walls, and penetrate the periorbital tissues
Typically the pt is an uncontrolled diabetic
Broad based budding
Double-contoured cell wall
Visible nuclei
Blastomycosis
Scedosporium/seudoallerscheria
Immunocompromised hosts tend to get CNS infections
scedo- perfect, asexual
pseudo- imperfect, sexual
HIV, pseudo hyphae, budding yeast
Candida
Pigeons, present in brain, India Ink
Cryptococcosis
