✅Mycology

Question 1

Agar used for fungal cultures

Answer 1

Saboraud’s agar

Question 2

Light test fo dermatophytes

Answer 2

Green fluorescence in wood’s lamp

Question 3

Appearance of malasezzia furfur

Answer 3

Spaghetti and meatball appearance

Question 4

Treatment for tinea versicolor

Answer 4

Miconazole for malassezia

Question 5

%KOH for fungal smear

Answer 5

10%

For dissolution of other cells

Question 6

Systemic mycoses

Answer 6

4

Coccidiodes immitis
Histoplasma capsulatum
Blastomyces dermatitidis
Paracoccidioded brasiliensis

Question 7

Fungal infection that occurs mostly in rose gardeners

Answer 7

Sporothrix schenkii

Question 8

Treatment for sporotrichosis

Answer 8

Itraconazole

Potassium iodide

Question 9

Illness caused by coccidiodes immitis

Answer 9

Valley fever

Question 10

Skin bumps seen on someone with coccidioes immitis

Answer 10

Dessert bumps (erythema nodosum)

Question 11

Systemic mycoses that is most common on filipinos living in latin america or southwestern USA

Answer 11

Coccidiodes immitis

Question 12

Dessert systemic mycoses

Answer 12

Coccidiodes immitis

Question 13

What happens to the microconidia of histoplasma capsulatum after it is inhaled

Mnemonic

Answer 13

It hides within macrophages and develops into budding yeasts

Histoplasma HIdes within macrophages

Question 14

Fungal and parasitic infections that greatly mimic TB

Answer 14

Histoplasma capsulatum

Paragonimus westermanii

Question 15

2 types of asexual spores of histoplasma.

Which one is the infective spore?

Answer 15

Tuberculate macroconidia

Microconidia - infective

Question 16

Histoplasma grows in soil contaminated with

Answer 16

Starling droppings or bat guano

Question 17

Mnemonic for blastomyces dermatitidis morphology

Answer 17

Blasto Buds Broadly

Round yeasts with a broad based bud

Question 18

Most common cause of fungal pneumonia

Answer 18

Blastomyces dermatitidis

Question 19

Usual antifungal for fungal meningitis

Answer 19

Fluconazole

Question 20

Morphology of paracoccidiodes brasiliensis

Answer 20

Thick yeast with multiple buds in wheel configuration (mariner’s wheel)

Question 21

Disease caused by paracoccidioded brasiliensis

Answer 21

Lutz-Splendore-de Almeida disease

Question 22

Man hater fungus

Answer 22

Paracoccidodes brasiliensis

Question 23

Morphology of candida skin infections

Answer 23

Satellite lesions

Question 24

Treatment for oropharyngeal and esophagel candidiasis

Answer 24

Nystatin swish and swallow

Question 25

Treatment for skin candida

Answer 25

Clotrimazole

Question 26

Tx for disseminated candidiasis

Answer 26

Amphotericin B

Question 27

Chemoprophylaxis for candidiasis

Answer 27

Fluconazole

Question 28

Preparation and stain used for cryptococcus neoformans

Answer 28

India ink preparation | Nigrosine stain

Question 29

Test for cryptococcal meningitis

Answer 29

Positive latex agglutination test (CALAS) - CSF

Question 30

Cryptococcal meningitis is a chronic or acute disease? What is its more common presentation?

Answer 30

Chronic Can just present as migraine

Question 31

Acute angle mold -mnemonic

Answer 31

Aspergillus is acute

Question 32

An immunocompromised person with asthmatic symptoms and expectoration of brown bronchial plugs presented at the ER. What should be part of your differentials?

Answer 32

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA)

Question 33

Fungal infections in patients with burns and leukemia

Answer 33

Mucormycosis

Question 34

R angle fungal branches

Answer 34

Rhizopus oryzae and mucor spp

Question 35

Diagnosis of pneumocystis jiroveci is done by

Answer 35

Staining of Bronchoalveolar lavage by Toluidine blue Methenamine silver stain

Question 36

DOC for pneumocystis jiroveci

Answer 36

TMP-SMX

Question 37

Most common aids defining illness

Answer 37

Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia

Question 38

2 basic fungal forms

Answer 38

Yeast and molds

Question 39

2 types of host response infungal infections

Answer 39

Granulomatous and pyogenic

Question 40

Toxin and effect in amanita mushrooms

Answer 40

Toxin: amanitin and phylloidin Effect: liver necrosis

Question 41

Toxin and effect in aspergillus flavus

Answer 41

Aflatoxin Liver cancer

Question 42

3 groups under cutaneous mycoses

Answer 42

Dermatophytoses Malassezia furfur Sporothrix schenckii