Flashcards in MYCOVIRO - CH 60 of book part 4 Deck (33):
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broad based yeast
Blastomyces dermatitidis
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circular to pyriform (dumb-bell) conidia, lollipop conidiophores
Blastomyces dermatitidis
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“prickly state” – tufts of hyphae projects upward
Blastomyces dermatitidis
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Exoantigen test or nucleic acid probe testing: presence of A band
Blastomyces dermatitidis
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direct exam of sputum or lung aspirate
Coccidioides immitis
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observe non-budding thick-walled spherule
Coccidioides immitis
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spherule either contains granular material or endospores
Coccidioides immitis
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alternate arthroconidia – arthroconidia separated by disjunctor cells
Coccidioides immitis
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small septate racquet hyphae; rectangular to barrel-shaped arthroconidia (stains with
lactophenol cotton or aniline blue)
Coccidioides immitis
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wet preparation: sterile saline + petrolatum, incubated overnight
Coccidioides immitis
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empty, collapsed “ghost” spherules may be present (bc of release of endospores)
Coccidioides immitis
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delicate cobweb-like growth
Coccidioides immitis
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Some have aerial hyphae, others have vegetative hyphae (adhere to agar surface)
Coccidioides immitis
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fluffy white, greenish discoloration on blood agar
Coccidioides immitis
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should be examined only under Level 3 BSC; culture should be sealed with tape to prevent
infection; screw-capped tubes must be used
Coccidioides immitis
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Histoplasma capsulatum
- Stain and specimen ??
Wright- or Giemsa-stained bone marrow specimens
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found intracellularly in mononuclear cells as small round yeast cells
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Histoplasma capsulatum
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small, intertwined hyphae
large, spherical or pyriform, smooth-walled macroconidia (characteristic tuberculate with age)
echinulate macroconidia (?)
Histoplasma capsulatum
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to remove contamination in H. capsulatum:
uses yeast extract/ phosphate medium and a drop of conc NH4OH
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recovered from blood culture within 8 days
Histoplasma capsulatum
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white, fluffy mold that turns brown to buff with age
tufts of hyphae project upward
Histoplasma capsulatum
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mariner’s wheel, mickey mouse cap
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
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heaped with crater formations, wrinkled, moist, yeastlike colonies o covered with short aerial mycelium and turns tan to brown with age
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
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test for definitive identification of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
Exoantigen test:
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no budding cells
extensively branched and highly septate hyphae
may be detected in peripheral blood smears in disseminated infection o mycelial forms produce brush-like conidiophores (penicillus)
Penicillium marneffei
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observe small, yeastlike cells with septa; reveals annelid formation
Penicillium marneffei
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produces blue-green to yellowish colonies on Sabouraud’s o soluble red to maroon pigment diffuses into agar
Penicillium marneffei
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Stain: exudate aspirated from unopened subcutaneous nodules or from open draining lesions
Sporothrix schenckii
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small, round to cigar-shaped yeast cells
Sporothrix schenckii
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stained using periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) method
Sporothrix schenckii
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amorphous pink material may be seen surrounding the yeast cells
delicate, septate, branching hyphae
single-celled conidia in clusters from tips of single conidiophores (rosette/flowerette
arrangement)
Sporothrix schenckii
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initially at 37C: small, moist, white to cream colored colonies
becomes membranous, wrinkled, and coarsely matted, leathery, dark brown to black colonies
Sporothrix schenckii
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