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SUBCUTANEOUS (MISTERMS) Flashcards

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What is the MOT of SubFungi?

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Trauma

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What are the 4 kinds of infections?

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• Mycetoma
• Sporotrichosis
• Chromoblastomycosis
• Phaeohyphomycosis

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Phaeohyphomycosis is caused by?

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Dematiaceous fungi

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What is the appearance of the lesion of S. phaeohyphomycosis?

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Cystic and overlying verrucose

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This infection is under mycetoma wherein this involves the skin, subcutaneous tissues and may even invade the bones and joints.

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Chronic granulomatous infection

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These type of tumor has discharging sinuses filled with organisms, pus and fluid

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Swollen tumor-like

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If mycetoma is caused by fungi, it is?

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Eumycetoma

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If mycetoma is caused by actinomycetes, it is?

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Actinomycetoma

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Where is mycetoma usually found?

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Soil, manure and rotting root

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Mycetoma is characterized to be Watery can foot known as?

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Madura foot

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What causes Sporotrichosis?

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Sporothrix schenckii

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Primary lesions develop at the site
of implantation

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Fixed cutaneous sporotrichosis

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Commonly found in the limbs,
hands, and fingers

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Fixed cutaneous sporotrichosis

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FIXED CUTANEOUS SPOROTRICHOSIS discharges a fluid that is?

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Purulent

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Chronic infection that infects the
cutaneous and subcutaneous
tissues

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FIXED CUTANEOUS SPOROTRICHOSIS

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Involves the lymphatic system, Secondary lesions also appear
along the lymphangitic channels.

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LYMPHOCUTANEOUS SPOROTRICHOSIS

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No systemic symptoms are
present

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LYMPHOCUTANEOUS SPOROTRICHOSIS

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Involves the lungs

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PULMONARY SPOROTRICHOSIS

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Principal root of metastasis formation

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Haematogenous dissemination

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This is the expectoration of blood.

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Haemoptysis

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Pulmonary sporotrichosis involves the lungs therefore this lesion is the gradual progression to death.

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Involves the bones

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Osteoarticular sporotrichosis

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What is the symptom of osteoarticular sporotrichosis?

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Stiffness and pain in the large joints

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Lesions usually confined to the long bones near affected
joints

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OSTEOARTICULAR SPOROTRICHOSIS

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seldom occurs without arthritis
Osteomyelitis
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What is the appearance of the nodules of Chromoblastomycosis?
Verrucoid crusted nodules - Wart like appearance
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This subcutaneous fungi, if left untreated it will elevate to resemble cauliflower.
Chromoblastomycosis
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What are the causative agents of Chromoblastomycosis
✓ Phialophora verrucosa ✓ Fonsecaea pedrosoi ✓ F. compacta ✓ Cladophialophora carrionii
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• chains branch from a conidium • tree-like appearance
CLADOSPORIUM
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With vase-shaped phialide arising from a conidiophore
PHIALOPHORA
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• Arranged sympodially on short denticles • Resembles a body builder • With primary, secondary and tertiary conidia
RHINOCLADIELLA
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• Disease: Chromoblastomycosis • Microscopic morphology:  Hyphae: dark septate  Conidia: Cladosporium type (tree-like)
Cladosporium carrionii
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• Disease: Phaeohyphomycosis, Mycetoma • Microscopic morphology:  Hyphae: septate branched with bends and tortuous end  Conidia: Annelloconidia ✓ Attached to an annellide then to an annellophore ✓ With vermiform granules (black pepper) on direct examination
Exophiala jeanselmei
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What is the type of conidia of exophiala jenselmei?
Annelloconidia
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✓ Attached to an annellide then to an annellophore ✓ With vermiform granules (black pepper) on direct examination
Annelloconidia
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• Disease: Chromoblastomycosis, Phaeohyphomycosis • Microscopic morphology:  Hyphae: dark brown septate  Conidia: all three types
Fonsecaea pedrosoi
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Fonsecaea pedrosoi may have secondary infection it may cause?
Elephantiasis
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enlargement of the lower extremities
Elephantiasis
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• Disease: chromoblastomycosis, phaehyphomycosis • Microscopic morphology:  Hyphae: dark septate hyphae  Conidia: Phialopora ✓ with distinct swollen center and collarette
Phialophora verrucosa
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What is the type of conidia of Phialophora verrucosa?
Phialophora
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with distinct swollen center and collarette
Phialophora
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• Fast grower • Perfect fungus (Teleomorph and anamorph)
Pseudallescheria boydii
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• Disease: Eumycotic mycetoma  with white or lightcolored granules on drainage • Microscopic appearance:  Hyphae: hyaline septate and loosely arranged  Conidia: lollipop-shaped or lemon-shaped annelloconidia on annellides
Pseudallescheria boydii
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What is the type of conidia of Pseudallescheria boydii?
Lollipop-shaped or lemon-shaped
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What is the other name of Sporothrix schenckii?
Rose Gardener's Disease
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Sporothrix schenckii is called "Rose Gardener's Disease" due to?
contact with sphagnum moss
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• Disease: Sporotrichosis • Microscopic appearance:  Hyphae: rope-like hyaline septate  Conidia: conidiophores arise at right angles ✓ darkly pigmented ✓ hyaline
Sporothrix schenckii
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denticulated
Sporothrix schenckii
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arrangement of conidia of Sporothrix schenckii?
Rosette or daisy-like
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• Disease: phaeohyphomycosis • Microscopic appearance:  Hyphae: septate and branched with tortuous twists and turns  Conidia: phialophora type with ovoid and unicellular conidia attached to flask shaped phialide and without collarette
Wangiella dermatitidis
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• Disease: Cerebral Phaeohyphomycosis • Microscopic appearance:  Hyphae: septate  Conidia: cladosporium type with blastoconidia (body)  Conidiophores: with poor posture
Xylohypha bantiana

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