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1
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Fungi can infect…

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plants, insects, amphibians, mammals

2
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Mycology

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The study of fungi

3
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Fungus

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A chemo-organotrophic eukaryote that lacks chlorophyll and forms spores
Classification is based on morphology

4
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Fungal Kingdom (main 3)

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Basidiomycetes, Asconmycetes, Zyomycetes

5
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Fungi causing non-fatal diseases like…

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Athletes foot (epidermoplytan)
Thrush (Candida)
Pityriasis Varicolor (Malasezia)
6
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Candida Species

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Infect deep organs of patients with various types of immune dysfunction (ie after abdominal surgery or burns etc)

7
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Aspergillus Species

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Infect deep organs of patients undergoing chemotherapy/ stem cell transplantation

8
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Host factors that contribute of pathogenicity of fungal infections

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Favourable microenvironments (warm/ moist areas)
Broad-spectrum anti-bacterial agents 
Immunosuppression of all types
9
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Immunosuppression of host defences: LATROGENIC

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Steriods, anti-cancer chemotherapy, solid organ transplantation

10
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Immunosuppression of host defences: DISEASE PROCESSES

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AIDS, Leukaemia, Endocrinopathies

11
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Candidiasis

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Candida commences to GI tract

Remember - candida are YEASTS

12
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Candidiasis risk factors

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Age, antibiotics, endocrine disorders, surgery, immune defects

13
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Candida causative species

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Candida albicans
Candida tropicalis
Candida glabrata

14
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Aspergillius causative species

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aspergillus fumigatus

aspergllus flavus

15
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Aspergillus

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MOULDS

fungi that are strongly angioinvasive (penetrate the walls of blood vessels)

16
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Cryptococccosis

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YEASTS WITH A CAPSULE

can cause meningitis

17
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Antifungal agents

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Polyenes, Azoles, Echinocandins