Aspergillosis Flashcards
aspergillus is a pathogen or an opportunist
opportunist
aspergillosis is most common in which species
poultry
which part of body do aspergillus affect
lungs(pneumonia) blood vessels(mycelial emboli)
toxins produced by aspergillus
alfatoxins
alfatoxins cause disease called
alfatoxicosis(myco-toxicosis)
aspergillosis in poultry is known as
brooder pneumonia
aspergillosis commonly occurs in _______ in horses
guttural pouch(recurrent epistaxis)
M. lesions of aspergillosis
- thrombosis/infarction of wall or arteries
- granulomas
m. lesions of aspergillosis
- large colonies of radiating hyphae
- mycelia surrounded by “SPLENDORE-HOEPPLI” material
tell about hyphae of aspergillus
- septate & branching
- basophilic
tell about splendore-hoeppli material
- are radiating clubs surrounding mycelia
- eosiniphilic
aspergillus is associated with which material
splendore-hoeppli
define mycotoxicosis
dz. caused by toxins of fungi
fungi are ______toxic mostly
hepatotoxic
alfatoxicosis is caused by toxin of __________ sp.
aspergillus
alfatoxicosis is also known as _________ poisoning
groundnut
groundnut poisoning is caused by which sp.
aspergillus
alfatoxins are produced by which two species of genus aspergillus
A. flavus
A. parasiticus
at least ____ different alfatoxins exist
17
name the five most important alfatoxins
B1,B2
G1,G2
M1
out of all, which alfatoxin is most TOXIC and most PREVALENT
B1
name a metabolist of alfatoxin B1, which is found in milk
M1
two cytopathic effects of alfatoxins
- hepatoxic
- carcinogenic
(hence cause LIVER CANCER)
which disease of alfatoxin was encountered first time and in which species
hepatitis X
dogs
cause of heptatitis X in dogs
goundnut meal
disease caused in turkey by alfatoxin
turkey X disease
tell about species,age susceptibility of alfatoxicosis
young>old
male>female
ducks,turkeys>chicken
which species are resistant to alfatoxicosis
horses
