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What can fungi infect?

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Plants

Insects

Amphibians

Mammals

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What is fungas?

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A chemo-organotrophic eukaryoate that lacks chlorophyll and forms spores

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What does the cell wall of fungus contain?

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Polysaccharides

Often chitin or glucan which absorbs nutrients

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What is the classification based on?

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Morphology (shape)

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What do we informally refer to fungi as?

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Moulds, yeasts or mushrooms

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What are the 3 groups of fungus?

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Basidomycetes

Ascomycetes

Zygomycetes

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What is the sexual and asexual spore of basidomycetes?

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Sexual spore is basidospore

Asexual spores is conidum

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What is the sexual and asexual spore of ascomycetes?

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Sexual spore is ascospore

Asexual spore is conidium

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What is the sexual and asexual spore of zygomycetes?

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Sexual spore is zygospore

Asexual spore is sporangiospore

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What are examples of basidomycetes?

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Mushrooms

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What are examples of ascompycetes?

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Neurospora

Saccharomyces

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What are examples of zygomycetes?

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Bread moulds

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What are examples of basidiomycete pathogens?

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Mucor

Rhizopus

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What are examples of ascompycete pathogens?

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Cryptococcus

Malassezia

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What are examples of zygomycete pathogens?

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Candida

Histoplasma

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What is in the structure of a basidiomycete?

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Basidospores

Sterigmata

Septum

Hypha

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What is contained in ascomycetes and where?

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Ascospores contained within a sac

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What is the structure of a zygomycete?

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Rough walled zygote, contains one or more zygospore

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What are yeasts?

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Fungi that favours a unicellular habit

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What are examples of non-fetal diseases caused by fungi?

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Athletes foot (caused by epidermophyton)

Thrush (caused by candida spp)

Pityriasis versicolor (caused by malassezia spp)

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What is athelete’s foot caused by?

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Epidermorphyton

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What is thrush caused by?

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Candida spp

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What is pityriasis versicolor caused by?

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Malassezia spp

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What are dermatophyte infections?

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Fungi have enzymes that degrade and utalise keratin as a nutrient source which is caused by epidermorphyton

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What is degrading and utilising keratin as a nutrient known as?
Dermatophytosis
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What are 3 fungi that cause skin disease?
Epidermophyton floccosum Microsporum canis Trichophyton mentagrophytes
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What is pityriasis versicolour?
A yeast infection that also forms hyphae in infected skin
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What are examples of fungi that can cause fatal disease?
Candida spp Asperigillus spp
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What does candida spp do?
Infects deep organs of patients with immune dysfunction
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What does asperigllus spp do?
Infects deep organs of patients undergoing chemotherapy or stem cell transplantation
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What are host factors that contribute to pathogenicity of fungal infections?
Favourable micro environments (warm, moist areas) Broad antimicrobial agents reduce competition Immunosuppresion creates window of opportunity for fungal infection
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What can immunosuppresion of hosts be?
Iatrogenic (illness caused by treatment) Disease processes
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What are iatrogenic causes of immunosuppresion?
Steroids Chemotherapy Organ transplantation
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What is iatrogenic?
Illness caused by treatment
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What are disease processes that cause immunosuppresion?
AIDS Leukaemia
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What kinds of infections do candida infections cause?
Oral Vaginal Skin Nail Urinary tract
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What kinds of fungi are the candida spp?
Yeasts
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What is dissemination?
Spreading
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What is the process of dissemination of candida spp?
1) Part of normal commensal gut flora 2) Antibacterial drugs wipe out competition 3) GI tract wall damaged 4) Spreads through blood
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What is hyphae?
Long branching structure of a fungi
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What is aspergillosis caused by?
Aspergillus spp
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What diseases does aspergillosis lead to?
Asthma Aspergilloma
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What is the process of aspergillosis infecting?
1) Inhaled 2) Forms hyphae in lung tissue 3) Invades blood vessels
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What is cryptoccososis caused by?
Cryptococcus spp
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What are the cryptococcus spp?
Yeasts with a capsule
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What diseases does cryptoccososis lead to?
Pulmanory cryptococcosis Meningitis Disseminated infection in severely compromised hosts
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Why is too much and too little immunity to fungi a bad thing?
Too much leads to a hypersensitive response and too little leads to infection
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How is fungi diagnosed?
Histopathology (under the microscope) High resolution CT scan
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What are the 3 main classes of anti-fungal drugs?
Triazoles (target steroids) Echinocardins (target walls) Polyenes (target membranes)
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What do triazoles target?
Steroids
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What do echinocandins target?
Cell wall
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What do polyenes target?
Membrane
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What are common problems with anti-fungal drugs?
Targets are not broad enough High toxicity
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How do triazoles work?
Inhibit production of sterols by targeting enzymes (Erg11)
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What is an issue with triazoles?
Resistance has been developed my mutation of Erg11 which pumps the drug out
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How do polyenes work?
Form pores in the cell wall that cahnges the internal environment and kill the fungi
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How do echinocandins work?
Inhibit glucose synthesis to prevent glucans being made, which weakens the cell wall and they cannot grow
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What is a problem with echinocandins?
Resistance is acquired by mutations of enzymes

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