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Fungi/protozoa

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Molds are also known as ____. They live in colonies formed from ____. They produce ___.   Mycelia. They are colonies of intertwining branching hyphae. They produce spores.  
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Conidia are also known as   asexual spores  
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Name the 4 fungi that are known for producing systemic disease.   Think "Cowboy Fungus": He has spore bullets and Cocks his gun, then blasts, and hits lung, skin, meninges, liver. (Coccidio, blastomycosis, histoplasmosis, paracoccidio)  
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Macrophage filled with ____, Broad-based budding ____, Spherule filled with endospores ____, Budding yeast with "captin's wheel formation'   1) Histoplasmosis, 2) Blastomycosis, 3)Coccidiomycosis, 4) Paracoccidiomycosis  
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Locations of Histo, blasto, coccidio, paracoccidio   Histo = West of Mississippi, Ohio river valley, Blasto= East of Miss and Southeastern US, Coccidio= Southwester US, San Joaquin Valley/desert, paraccidio = Rurual Latin America  
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Histo: Image   "spleunking, cleaning chicken droppings"; found in bird/bat droppings  
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Blasto: Image   "Landscaper"; soil/rotting wood  
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Coccidio:Image   Immigrant  
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All fungi, like humans and ___ have ____. The particular one found in fungus is ____.   mycoplasma, sterols, ergosterol  
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Symptoms possible for systemic disease of fungus:   Pneumonia, meningitis, Liver, bone (granulomatous), skin  
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Systemic fungal diseases are similar to TB: (4) and are unlike TB in that (1)   Similar: Inhaled (primary infection is in lungs), X-ray infiltrates may have granuloma with calcifications and can be cavitary, can disseminate, produce type IV; Not spread person-person  
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Blastomycoses is different than other sytsemic fungi in that   It's the hardest to get and hardest to have; will have inflammatory lung disease  
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Blasto if disseminated goes to ___   Skin and bone: Warty lesions/crusted verrucous lesions  
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Coccidio if disseminated goes to ___   CNS/Bone (meningitis)  
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Histo, if disseminated   Liver, spleen, bone marrow, skin  
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Paracoccidio is famous for   Painful destructive ulcers in mouth mucosa  
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Desribe life pattern of systemic fungi   Dimorphic; in soil= they are spores, in body they are yeast  
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Unlike others, ___ is a spherule in tissue   Coccidio  
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Treatment for Systemic fungi: local___, Systemic ___-   Local: Fluconazole, ketoconazole, Systemic: Amphotericin B for systemic infection  
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To culture systemic fungi, use   Sabouraud  
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Tinea versicolor is caused by ____, and is found ____   Malassezie furfur, found in hot, humid weather  
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Tinea versicolor causes, and can be found with a Wood's lamp that reveals. To look at the organisms, use ____. It will reveal ___.   hypopigmented/hyperpigmented patches on skin (trunk, shoulder, neck). Wood lamp reveals pale-yellow to blue-white fluorescence. Use KOH which will reveal "Spaghetti and meatball" appearence  
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Treat Tinea versicolor with ___ or ____   Miconazole, selenium sulfide  
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Tinea pedis, cruris, corporis, capitis are caused by ____. They Dimorphic/non-dimorphic, and look like ___ with ___ preparation.   Microsporum, Trichophyton, Epidermophytum. They are not dimorphic and have mold hyphae on KOH presentation.  
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Name the opportunistic fungal infections   Think: "Cancer, Aids, CheMo, Recycled organs" for Candida, Aspergillus, Cryptococcus, Mucor or Rhizopus.  
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Candida: Infections in healthy:   1)Yeast infections, 2)diaper rash, 3) thrush. immunocompromised (nenonates, steroids, diabetes, aids): esophagitis, disseminated, endocarditis  
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Treat candida with   Nystatin (superficial), Amphotericin (serious systemic)  
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Pseudohyphae + budding yeasts at 20, Germ tubes at 37   Candida  
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45 angle branching septate hyphae, rare fruiting bodies. Dimrophic/non-dimorphic   Asperigillis, not dimorphic  
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Aspergillus produce a toxin ___ that affects this organ ___   aflatoxin, affects the liver  
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Aspergillus produces three diseases   Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (type I, type IV hypersensitivity reaction), lung cavity aspergilloma (fungus ball), Invasive aspergillosis (in people with TB),  
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narrow based unequal budding with capsular halo.   Cryptococcus  
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Cryptococcus produces   meningitis, cryptococcosis  
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Cryptococcus is found ___, Aspergillis is found___-   Crypto: pigeon droppings, Aspergillis = rotting wood  
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Stains with india ink   Crypto  
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Soap bubble leasions in brain   Cryptococcus  
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Irregular nonseptate hyphae branching at wide angles (> 90 degrees)   Mucormycosis  
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Mucormycosis is mostly found in what populations   Diabetics/leukemia patients.  
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Pathophysiology of mucor   proliferate in walls of blood vessels and cause infarction/necrosis of tissue  
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Black nasal discharge/ulceration/3rd nerve palsy   Mucor/rhizopus  
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"cup/helmet shaped cells"   Pneumocystis jiroveci (PCP)  
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PCP causes   Diffuse interstitial pneumonia  
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Methenamine silver stain of lung tissue   PCP  
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Treatment for PCP   TMP-SMX, pentamidine, dapsone  
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PCP patient presents   Low ABGs out of proportion to clinical scenario  
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"Rose Gardener's disease"   Sporothrix schenckii  
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Sporothrix schenckii: dimorphic/non-dimorphic. It causes ___   dimorphic. causes local pustule/ulcer with nodules along draining lymphatics, little systemic illness.  
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Treatment for Sporothrix schenckii   itraconazole, potassioum iodide  
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Cigar-shaped budding yeast   Sporothrix schenckii  
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Mucormycosis is mostly found in what populations   Diabetics/leukemia patients.  
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Pathophysiology of mucor   proliferate in walls of blood vessels and cause infarction/necrosis of tissue  
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Black nasal discharge/ulceration/3rd nerve palsy   Mucor/rhizopus  
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"cup/helmet shaped cells"   Pneumocystis jiroveci (PCP)  
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PCP causes   Diffuse interstitial pneumonia  
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Methenamine silver stain of lung tissue   PCP  
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Treatment for PCP   TMP-SMX, pentamidine, dapsone  
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PCP patient presents   Low ABGs out of proportion to clinical scenario  
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"Rose Gardener's disease"   Sporothrix schenckii  
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Sporothrix schenckii: dimorphic/non-dimorphic. It causes ___   dimorphic. causes local pustule/ulcer with nodules along draining lymphatics, little systemic illness.  
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Treatment for Sporothrix schenckii   itraconazole, potassioum iodide  
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Cigar-shaped budding yeast   Sporothrix schenckii  
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