🥇Medical Mycology (ALL) Flashcards
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The term “mycology” is derived from Greek word “mykes” meaning?
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mushroom
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2 Basic Fundamental Structures of fungi
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Hyphae
Spores
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Fungi are achlorophyllous meaning what?
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can not manufacture its own food
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T/F
Fungi grow I the presence of acid and large amount of sugar (SDA- with pH of 5.6) which inhibits bacteria
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T
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2 Morphologic Forms of Fungi
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Yeast
Mold
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✅ They produce moist, creamy, opaque or pasty colonies 0.5-3.0 mm in dm on culture media
✅ Single-celled/ unicellular structures with a thick cell wall
✅ Most reproduce by asexual budding, few by binary fission
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Yeast
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Produces multicellular filamentous colonies: Fluffy, cottony, wooly or powdery
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Mold
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The basic structural unit of mold which can be divided in to: Septate, Aseptate, Mycelium
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Hyphae
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Side note:
Which can be divided into 2: a. Vegetative or Substrate b. Aerial or Reproductive mycelium
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(when hyphae overlaps one from the other), hyphae forms a mass of intertwining strands
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Mycelium
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3 COMMON FORMS OF HYPHAE
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✅ Antler Hyphae/Favic Chandelier
✅ Racquet hyphae
✅ Spiral hyphae
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- The capability of an organism to grow in more than one form under different environment
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✅ Dimorphism
(Monomorphic- The opposite)
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T/F
Sporothrix schenkii exhibits Dimorphism characteristics
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T
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derived from fusion of identical cells from the same hyphae
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Zygospores/Zygomycetes
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Spores enclosed in a specific sac called ascus (asci)
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Ascospores/Ascomycetes
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enclosed in a club-shaped structures called basidia or basidium
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Basidiospores/Basidiomycetes
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derived from fusion of non-identical cells from the same hyphae
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Oospores
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Side note:
Asexual (anamorph) = imperfect fungus (Fungus imperfecti)
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Buds formed by budding process, sprouting from the surface of the parent cell
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Blastospores
Ex. Candida albicans
Cryptococcus neoformans
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derived from the cells of the thallus or body of the fungi
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Thalospores
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Arise by fragmentation of the ends of hyphae at the point of septation; square barrel-shaped thick walled cells
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Arthrospores/Arthroconidia
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When hyphal cells separate from one another to form flat ended spores
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✅ Oidia
Example:Geotrichum candidum
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Enlarged, round unicellular thick-walled structures that are formed during unfavorable conditions; formed by the enlargement of a hyphal cell
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Chlamydospores/Chlamydoconidia
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3 types of Chlamydospores
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TIS
✅ Terminal
✅ Intercallary
✅ Sessile
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Born internally within a sac called “SPORANGIUM”, which develops at the tip of the sporangiophore
Sporangiospores
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Asexual spores produces singly or in groups (en-grape) by specialized vegetative strands/branch called Conidiphore (borne externally not with in)
Conidia
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NOTE:
Some conidiophore terminate into swollen structure called VESICLE; From the surface of the vesicle are formed secondary flask-shaped or bottle called PHIALIDES or STERIGMA which in turn give rise to long chains of conidia as seen in Aspergillus
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2 Sized of Conidia
✅Microconidia/Microaleuriospores
✅Macroconidia/Macroaleriospores
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(3) DIAGNOSTIC METHODS USED FOR FUNGAL IDENTIFICATION
✅ Direct Examination
✅ Fluorescence
✅ STAINING
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NOTE:
✅ KOH (10-20%) Wet mounts
* Observe for: hyphae, budding yeast cells or any mycelial filaments
✅ India Ink
--- For identification of Cryptococcus neoformans .
--- Look for encapsulated yeast cells
****Ideal specimen****
CSF (meningeal form)
Sputum (pulmonary form)
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3 Direct Examination methods
✅ KOH (10-20%)
✅ India Ink
✅ Lactophenol Cotton Blue (stain used is AMAN Medium - Observe for spores, yeast cells and hyphae)
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Best staining for visualizing fungi in skin scraping or tissue If dematiaceous, appears as dark brown/black
PAS staining
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Gridley, Gomori-Methenamine Silver
Excellent for STAINING yeast cells of H. capsulatum in TISSUE
Wright’s Stain or Giemsa
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Best stain for B. dermatitidis
Papanicolau method
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Stain ideal for T. versicolor
Acridine Orange
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Useful in the differentiation of Nocardia from Actinomyces Hyphae of Nocardia steroids and Nocardia brasilliensis are partially acid fast
Acid Fast Stain (Kinyoun)
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NOTE!!!
Recommendation for Fungal Culture Media
✅1. Media with or without enrichment should be used (5-10%) sheep's RBC
✅ 2. Media with or without cyclohexmide (inhibits growth of fungi) should be used
✅ 3. All should contain antibacterial agents like chloramphenicol
✅ Culture should be incubated at RT for 30 days before reporting negative
✅ Culture should be examined at least 3 times a week during incubation
✅ Recommended to use agar plates or screw capped tubes for the recovery of fungi
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NOTE!!!
Disadvantage of Culture Tubes:
✅ This will lead to poor isolation of colonies
✅ Reduce surface area of culture
✅ Tendency to promote anaerobiasis
✅ Cotton plugged tubes with culture media are not ideal or unsatisfactory for fungal cultures
**Serologic Test for Fungal Detection**
✅A significant rise in antibody titer to confirm the diagnosis
✅Complement fixation= for Cocciioidomycosis, Histoplasmosis, Blastomycosis 2. Latex Agglutination= for Cryptococcosis
✅ Precipitation test
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Fungi has a rigid cell wall made of?
chitin
.....which may be layered with mannans, glucans and other polysaccharides in association with polypeptides.
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NOTE!!!
🩵Some lower fungi possess cellulose in their cell wall. Some fungi such as Cryptococcus and yeast form of Histoplasma capsulatum possess polysaccharide capsules that help them to evade phagocytosis.
🩵Inner to the cell wall is the plasma membrane that is a typical bi-layered membrane in addition to the presence of sterols.
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Fungal membranes possess______ in contrast to cholesterol found in mammalian cells.
ergosterol
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Type of mycoses that is - Limited or confined to the outermost layer of the skin, hair and nails
- Does not invade living tissue
SUPERFICIAL MYCOSES
✔Profuse sweating
✔ Poor hygiene
✔ Poor immunityPoor hygiene
✔ Poor immunity
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Spaghetti and meatballs
Symptoms: Hypopigmented macules
Pityriasis versicolor
-Malassezia furfur
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Black, 2-celled oval yeasts in skin scrapings
-Commonly found on the palms
-Symptoms: Black macules
Tinea nigra
-Exophilia werneckii
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Black nodules on hair shaft composed of spore sacs and spores
-black nodule on hair shaft
what is the disease
Black piedra
-Piedraia hortae
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White nodules on hair shaft
-creme coloured nodukes on hair shaft
White piedra
-Trichosporum beigelii
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- Major cause of blindness in Asia
- White corneal plaques with the development of satellite lesions and endothelial plaques
- Etiologic agent:
✅Yeasts: Candida species
✅Filamentous fungi: Fusarium, Aspergillus, Alternaria, Curvularia, Penicillium, Mucor
✅Contact lens use: Cosmetic lens – filamentous
- Therapeutic lens – Yeasts
Keratomycosis (Keratitis/ Keratomycosis/ Keratitis)
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Mode of action: inhibits CYP P450 14 a-demethylase enzyme involved in conversion of lanosterol to ergosterol
Azoles: Ketaconazole, fluconazole, Voriconazole
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binds to ergosterol in fungal cell membrane & cause the membrane to
become leaky.)
Polyenes: Amphotericin B, Natamycin
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causes faulty RNA synthesis & non competitive inhibitor of Thymidylate
synthesis
Pyrimidines: Flusytosine
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Ergosterol Biosynthesis inhibitor
Allylamines: Terbinafine
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✅ Clinical picture: Chronic fungal infection of the outer ear canal -
✅ Organism responsible: Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis
Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus niger
Otomycosis/ Mycotic Otitis Externa
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Etiologic agent; Piedraia hortae
- Occurs on scalp
- Microscopic appearance: 10-290% KOH- hard and black nodules resembling nits of lice
BLACK PIEDRA
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Etiologic agent: Tricosporon beigelii
- Microscopic appearance: white nodules lager and softer
- Septate not dematiaceous
WHITE PIEDRA
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✅ Clinical picture: Superficial infection on the palm of the hands or the sole of the foot
✅ Etiologic agent: Clasdosporium wernickii or Hortae or Exophiala or Phaeoannellomyces werneckii
✅Characteristics: 10-20% KOH: Strongly dematiaceous septate hyphae
Tinea nigra/ Keratomycosis nigricans palmaris/ Tinea nigra palmaris/Pytyriasis nigra/Microsporis nigra
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🤰Clinical picture: Patchy brown desquamating rash involving mainly the trunk, arms, shoulder and face “ blotchy appearance
✅ Characteristic microscopic appearance: in 10-20% KOH
- “spaghetti and meatballs appearance”
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Pityriasis versicolor
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is a disease of the skin and its appendages caused by fungi.
It comprises dermatophytosis, candidiasis, and pityriasis versicolor
Superficial mycosis
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NOTE!!!
Dermatophyte is responsible for most superficial fungal infection and the expected lifetime risk of getting a dermatophyte infection is between 10 and 20.
The dermatophytes are a group of closely related fungi infecting skin, hair, and nails in living host including man. They produce an infection called dermatophytosis, also known as ringworm or tinea. The skin infections caused by nondermatophytic fungi are known as dermatomycoses whereas hair and nail are known as piedra and onychomycosis, respectively.
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Disease associated:
✔ Ringworm
✔ Jock itch
✔ Athlete’s foot
✔ Dermatomycoses
- ✔ Invades the keratinized areas of the body as skin, hair and nails
CUTANEOUS MYCOSES/ DERMATOMYCOSES
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Breakdown and use____ as a source of nitrogen but are usually incapable of penetrating the subcutaneous
tissues
keratin
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Note:
✔ Most common fungal infection of human and are usually referred to as Tinea
✔ Outstanding feature of the etiologic agent:
✔ Keratinophilic bases on hair baiting method (Used wood’s light to detect fluorescence hair)
✔ Hair: Ectothrix = dermatophytes grow outside the hair shaft
Endothrix = dermatophytes grow inside the hair shaft
✅fungal skin infection = Tinea
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=affects the hair and skin
Microsporum
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=affects the hair,skin and nails
Trichophyton
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=affects the skin and nails
Epidermophyton
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Note!!!
✔ Body (Tinea corporis)
✔ Scalp (Tinea capitis)
✔ Feet (Tinea pedis or athletes’s foot)
✔ Groin ( Tinea corporis or jock itch)
-✅For nails and Skin: observes hyaline, septate hyphae
The specimen for culture is taken from the center of the lesion
- Hair, skin and nail cultures use mycosel or mycobiotic medium and incubate at RT 4-6 weeks before
reporting
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Tinea unguium affects the whaT???!
Nail (Onchomycosis)
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3 GENERA CAUSING RINGWORM
Microscporum - hair/skin
Trichophyton - hair/skin/nail
Epidermophyton - nail/skin
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- Only fungus disease that can almost be diagnosed by clinical picture alone
- Etiologic aent: Sporothrix schenkii
- Cigar-shaped- Bodies
- ✔ Conidia borne in floral-like arrangement e conidia borne along the sides of hdaisy-like “Rossette”
clusters or “boquet”-like
Sporothricossis/Rose Gardener’s Disease
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tumor-like lesions characterized as “ cauliflower-like”
Chromomycosis/Chromoblastomycosis/Verrucous dermatitidis
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- Chronic granulomatous infection which produces tumor-like lesions and sinus tract formation with the presence of granules usually of the foot
- A. israelii= “molar tooth-like” colony
- Eumycotic mycetoma
✔ True fungi
Mycetuma/Madura foot/Maduramycosis
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- Initial lesions are small, hard and subcutaneous nodules appearing on the extremities, face or ear
- Lymhp nodes are not involved
- Etiologic agent: Loboa loboi
Lobomycosis
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✅ Tumor-like polyp usually on the nose
✅ Etiologic agent: Rhinosporidium seeberi
✅ Acquired from stagnant water
Rhinosporidiosis
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causative agent
- Acquired through inhalation from bird droppings
- Etiologic agent: Histoplasma capsulatum
- Smallest yeast cells
- Emmonsiella capsulatum
✔ “INTRACELLULAR YEAST CELLS” on neutrophils - most associated with AIDS pxs
- can calcify the lungs (similar to TB)
Histoplasma capsulatum
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Causative agent:
- Acquired through inhalation of arthrospores
✔ Mycellium is adherent to the agar surface in some portions of the colony “cob-web” like growth
- Microscopic features from Culture
✔ Chains of alternate ✅ BARREL-SHAPED ARTHROCONIDIA
✅ rope-like strands
✅ racquet forms
✅Coccidiodomycosis/Cocci/ Desert Fever/Valley fever/ Desert Rheumatism/ “The Bumps”/ ✅San Joaquin Valley Fever/ Posadas Werneckii
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causative agent
✅ “LOLLIPOP conidia”
✅ BROAD-BASED BUDDING thick walled yeast cells
Blastomycosis/ Gilcrhrist’s Disease/Chicago Disease/ North American Blastomycosis
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causative agent?
“MARINER’S WHELL
PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS/SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTMYCOSIS/ “PARA” or “PARACOCCI”/ ALMEIDA”S DISEASE/ LUTZ SPLENDORE ALMEIDA’S DISEASE
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NOTE !!!
- Opportunistic Fungi
✅ Candida species( causing aspergillosis)
✅ Cryptococcus( causing cryptococcosis)
✅ Zygomycetes (causing zygomycosis)
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What is the colony characteristic of blastomycosis?
PRICKY STATE”
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What is the mode of transmission of Histoplasmosis?
Inhalation from bird droppings
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What is the method that is considered by most laboratories to be the most conclusive method for making a definitive identification of dimorphic fungi?
Exoantigen test
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What is the microscopic features from the culture of the etiologic agent of San Joaquin Valley Fever?
Chains of alternate Barrel-shaped arthroconidia
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What is the diagnostic characteristic of Almeida’s disease?
Multiple budding cells resembling “MARINER’S WHEEL”’
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What is the serologic test used for the diagnosis of systemic mycoses?
Exoantigen test
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What are the other names of Blastomycosis?
Gilchrist’s disease, or Chicago Disease or North American Blastomycosis
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An etiologic of coccidiodomycosis which was considered to be a major biohazard
Coccidiodes immitis
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What are the 2 etiologic agents of Darling’s disease?
1. Histoplasma capsulatum,
2. Emmonsiella capsulatum
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What is the colony characteristic of blastomycosis?
“PRICKLY STATE”
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most often seen in clinical laboratory
Aspergillus fumigatus
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causes oncomycosis
Aspergilus flavus
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major cause of otomycosis
- In tissue or sputum ( 10-20% KOH): HYALINE, DICHOTOMOUSLY BRANCHED, SEPTATE
HYPHAE
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What fungus causes Tinea Nigra, which is sometimes confused with malignant melanoma?
Hortaea werneckii
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Aerial hyphae: macroconidia resembling "beaver tails"
Epidermophyton floccosum
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Describe the macroscopic and microscopic presentation of Tri- chophyton rubrum.
Macroscopic:
Forward is white (yellow to red as it ages), Reverse is deep burgundy red on PDA.
