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Hyaline Opportunists Flashcards

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Natural habitat for hyaline opportunists

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Nature

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Which type of patient is typically infected w/ hyaline opportunists?

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Immunocompromised

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Mode of transmission for most fungal infections

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  • Most often inhaled

- Ingestion or direct inoculation is less common

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Four conditions (defects in immune system) that commonly predispose individuals to opportunistic fungal infections

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  • Diabetes
  • Granulocytopenia
  • Absence of cellular immunity
  • AIDS
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Most common patient population that acquires mucormycoses

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Type I diabetics (poorly controlled or in ketoacidosis)

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What is the name for aseptate, hyaline fungi?

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Mucorales (formerly Zygomycetes)

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List the four organisms that are agents of mucormycoses

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  • Rhizopus
  • Mucor
  • Rhizomucor
  • Lichtheimia (formerly Absidia)
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Most common agent of mucormycoses and is difficult to treat?

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Rhizopus

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Mucorales

- Most common route of infection

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Inhalation

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Mucorales

- More common clinical presentations observed in patients

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  • Rhinocerebral → nasal sinus infection that spreads to orbits or the brain
  • Pulmonary and systemic infections (esp. in BM transplant patients)
  • Predilection for invading blood vessels (infarctions)
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Mucor

- Microscopic morphology

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NO RHIZOIDS`

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Rhizopus

- Microscopic morphology

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  • Usually unbranched sporangiophores

- Distinct rhizoids at base of sporangiophore (collapsed umbrellas)

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Rhizomucor

- Microscopic morphology

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  • Usually branched sporangiophores

- Rhizoids

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Lichtheimia

- Microscopic morphology

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  • Usually branched sporangiophores

- Delicate (and often difficult to find) rhizoids appear at points BETWEEN sporangiophores (internodal)

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What is the name for septate, hyaline fungi?

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Aspergillus fumigatus

- Colony morphology

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Blue-gray/blue-greenish colonies

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Aspergillus fumigatus

- Microscopic morphology

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  • Conidia cover only 1/2 of the vesicle

- Uniserate (one row of phialides)

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Aspergillus flavus

- Colony morphology

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Yellow/brown colonies

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Aspergillus flavus

- Microscopic morphology

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  • Conidia cover most of the vesicle
  • Biserate or uniserate
  • Rough (spiny) conidiophores
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Aspergillus terreus

- Colony morphology

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Cinnamon-colored colonies

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Aspergillus terreus

- Microscopic morphology

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Biserate phialides covering upper half of vesicle

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Aspergillus niger

- Colony morphology

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Black dots on white

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Aspergillus niger

- Microscopic morphology

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Biserate phialides covering the entire vesicle

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Penicillium

- Colony morphology

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Greenish or yellow-green colonies

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Penicillium | - Microscopic morphology
- Brush-like appearance of phialides (no vesicle) | - Round conidia in chains
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Paecilomyces | - Colony morphology
Colonies are often light pastel colors
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Paecilomyces | - Microscopic morphology
- Long, tapered phialides | - Oval conidia
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Scopularioposis | - Colony morphology
Buff to brown colonies
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Scopularioposis | - Microscopic morphology
Conidia represent a long "string of light bulbs"
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Acremonium | - Colony morphology
Fuzzy
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Acremonium | - Microscopic morphology
Oval conidia in clusters
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Sepedonium | - Microscopic morphology
- Macroconidia resembles Histoplasma capsulatum | - Cigar-shaped macroconidia
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Pseudallescheria boydii/Scedosporium boydii | - Microscopic morphology
Single conidia on ends of conidiophores ("lollipop")
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Fusarium | - Colony morphology
Lavendar to rose-colored clonies
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Fusarium | - Microscopic morphology
Sickle-shaped macroconidia
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Sepedonium macroconidia resembles Histoplasma. How do they differ based on pathogenicity?
- Histoplasma is pathogenic | - Sepedonium is non-pathogenic
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Aspergillus | - Clinical presentations
- NEUTROPENIA!!!! - Allergic aspergillus - Fungus ball - Disseminated aspergillosis
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This is an overgrowth in an old TB or Histoplasma cavity; noninvasive; tangled masses of septate hyphae are present
Fungus ball
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How does Aspergillus become disseminated?
- It produces elastase allowing it to invade and destroy blood vessels - Surrounding tissue undergoes infarction
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Fusarium | - Clinical presentation
Keratitis
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Aspergillus spp | - How is it acquire?
Inhalation
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Fusarium | - How is it acquired?
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