Systemic Mycoses

Question 1

Characteristics of systemic mycocoses

Answer 1

Inherently virulent
Inhaled
Disease in healthy animals

Question 2

Blastomycosis characteristics

Answer 2

Mold 
Transmission is rare
Dogs
In soil and wood
Cutaneous that grows from the inside out

Question 3

Blastomycosis Dx

Answer 3

Attached by a broad base between mother and daughter cells

Thick walled yeast

Question 4

Blastomycosis tx

Answer 4

Ketoconazole

Amphotericin

Question 5

Coccidioidomycosis characteristics

Answer 5

Hot dry climate
Pulmonary infection
Dimorphic (switches from mold to yeast when in host)
1 spore is infectious

Question 6

Cocci Dx

Answer 6

Sporangia in saline KOH

Infectious with 1 spore

Question 7

Histoplasmosis characteristics

Answer 7

Mississippi and Ohio rivers
Wet soil
Dogs: respiratory disease, dyspnea
Grows in poultry litter

Question 8

Dx of histoplasmosis

Answer 8

Stained Buffy coat or smear

Question 9

Tx of histoplasmosis

Answer 9

Ketoconazole
Itracknazole
Not good prognosis

Question 10

Cryptococcosis characteristics

Answer 10

Cats
Yeast
Nasal infection

Question 11

Dx cryptococcosis

Answer 11

Stained exudate

Buffy coat

Question 12

Tx cryptococcosis

Answer 12

Flucomazole