who's a fun guy?

Question 1

caves, chicken coops, Mississipi?

Answer 1

histoplasmosis

Question 2

soil, wood, mississippi?

Answer 2

blastomycosis

Question 3

southwest, AIDS?

Answer 3

coccidiomycosis

Question 4

latin america, captain’s wheel on microscopy?

Answer 4

paracoccidioidomycosis

Question 5

macrophage filled with small fungi?

Answer 5

histo

Question 6

broad based budding?

Answer 6

blasto

Question 7

spherules filled with endospores?

Answer 7

coccidio

Question 8

genuses of dermatophytes?

Answer 8

microsporum
trichophyton
epidermophyton

Question 9

branching septate hyphae on KOH?

Answer 9

tinea! dermatophytes

Question 10

hypo/hyperpigmentation, summer/sunny, spaghetti and meatballs on KOH?

Answer 10

tinea versicolor

Malassezia spp. - not a dermatophyte

Question 11

wtf is an aflatoxin?

Answer 11

made by aspergillus

causes liver issues - HCC

Question 12

septate hyphae, branch at 45deg angle?

Answer 12

aspergillus

Question 13

nonseptate hyphae, branch at 90deg angle?

Answer 13

mucor/rhizopus

Question 14

soil, pigeons, india ink/mucicarmine, latex agglutination, soap bubble brain?

Answer 14

cryptococcus

Question 15

AIDS, ground glass, disc-shaped yeast on methenamine silver stain?

Answer 15

PCP

Question 16

cigar-shaped, thorn/gardening, ascending lymphangitis

Answer 16

sporotrichosis - sporothrix schenckii

Question 17

i jabbed myself with a rose! what do i do?

Answer 17

potassium iodide (put it in a POT)
or itraconazole