Derymatophytoses 3 most common?
MET
Microsporum canis
Trichyphyton tonsurans
Epidermophyton floccosum
Diagnosis
KOH :
Sabourad agar:
Wood lamp:
- Septate hyphae
- Hyphae and conidia
- Green fluorescence
Pathogeneis of tinea versicolor?
Lipid degradation leads to acid production and disruption of MELANOCYTES
Fungegmia in premature infants on IV lipid supplement?
M furfur
Gardeners gets punctured by rose thorn what is most likely fungal organism
Sporothrix schenkii
Coccidiodes immitis is a dimorphic fungi… which are?
Mold in soil
Spherule in tissue
Transmission of coccidioides immitis
Inhalation of arthrospores
Histoplasma capsulatum is transmitted via?
Inhalation of microconidia from bird droppings (black bird / starlings) or bat guano
Pathogenesis of histoplasma infection.
Yeast hide inside macrophages
Transmission of blastomyces dermatitidis
Inhalation of conidia
Mariners wheel (mutiple yeast in wheel configuration) is seen in?
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
Candida albicans grow differently in serum and culture.
Serum: germ tubes
Culture: chlamydo-spores
Diagnosis of cryptotoccus neoformans
X2
- India ink (yeast)
2. Latex agglutination test (CALAS)