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KOH prep can be used to examine   Hair, nails, skin scrapings, fluids, exudates, biopsies  
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What does the KOH do to the specimen?   Dissolves specimen quickly (fungi slowly)  
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What happens if calcofluor white is added to KOH?   Binds to cell wall and fluoresces blue-white under UV light  
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Historical use of India Ink   CSF specimens for C. neoformans  
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What does India Ink do?   Creates black background to visualize capsul  
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Giemsa, Wright-Giemsa   H. capsulatum (intracellular)  
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Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E)   Pink to pinkish blue  
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Meyer's Mucicarmine   C. neoformans - rose red  
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Gomori Methenamine Silver (GMS)   Fungal elements are black  
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Papanicolaou stain   Pink to blue (cervical, vaginal, some resp samples)  
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Periodic Acid Schiff (PAS)   Red or purple  
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Time need for yeast to grow   2 to 3 days  
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Rapid growing mould grows in   Less than 5 days  
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Intermediate mould grows in   6 to 10 days  
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Slow growing mould takes how long to grow?   More than 11 days, sometimes 8 weeks  
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3 methods used in microscopic examination of moulds   Tease/cut preperation, Scotch tape preperation, Slide culture  
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Tease/cut preperation   Organism removed directly from plate, teased apart with teasing needles, can also cut out a piece  
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Scotch tape preperation   Scotch tape pressed onto culture plate, transferred to microscope slide  
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Slide culture   Organism is sub-cultured to small piece of agar, covered with coverslip, grows onto coverslip which is then removed and examined  
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Best microscopic method for examining moulds is   Slide culture  
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What stain is usually added for microscopic examination?   Lactophenol-cotton blue  
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Hair perforation test   Sterile hair floated on sterile water + yeast extract, conidia or hyphae inoculated onto water surface, remove hair shafts and observe weekly for 1 month  
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Trichophyton hair perforation test results   T. rubrum = Neg; T. mentagrophytes = Pos  
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Urease test   Tubes of urease agar are lightly inoculated, incubated 5 days at room temp  
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Trichophyton urease test results   T. mentagrophytes = Pos, T. rubrum = Neg or weak  
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Trichophyton agars for dermatophyte identification   T agar #1 w/o thiamine, T agar #4 w/thiamine; incubate for 10-14 days and observe for growth  
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T. mentagrophytes growth on Trichophyton agar   4+ on #1 and #4  
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T. rubrum growth on Trichophyton agar   4+ on #1 and #4  
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T. tonsurans growth on Trichophyton agar   +/- on #1 and 4+ on #4  
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Rice grain growth   Sterile, nonfortified rice grain media; incubate 10 days and observe for growth  
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Rice grain growth is used to differentiate   M. canis (grows) vs. M. audouinii  
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