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Cutaneous And Subcutaneous Mycoses Flashcards

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Affect keratinized tissues

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Cutaneous mycoses

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Dermatophytes (keratinophilic)

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Microsporon
Epidermophyton
Trichophyton

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Causes ringworm/tinea

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Dermatophytes (keratinophilic)

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Ring-like appearance, red and scaly with a distinct margin, cordlike bumps beneath the skin fesembling a worm.

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Tinea / Ringworm

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Dermatophytes

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Microsporum
Trichophyton
Epidermophyton

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Microsporum infects

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Skin, hair and rarely nails

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Large, spindle pr cylinder shaped, thick walled, multi-septate, rough, spiny

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Microsporum MACROconidia

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Few or absent small, club shaped

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Microsporum MICROconidia

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Microsporum spp.

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Microsporum audouinii
Microsporum canis
Microsporum gypseum

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Anthrophilic

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Microsporum auduoinii

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Fluoresces under woods light (M. audouinii) color

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Microsporum audouinii (yellow green)

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Rice medium negative

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Microsporum auduoinii

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Salmon colored colonies

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Microsporum audouinii

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Fluoresces under woods light (M.canis) color

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Bright yellow

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Rice medium positive

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Microsporum canis

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Geophilic

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Microsporum gypseum

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17
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No fluorescence

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Microsporum gypseum

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Rice medium positive

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M. Canis
M. Gypseum

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Cinnamon colored colonies

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Microsporum gypseum

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Trichophyton infects

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Skin, hair, nails

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Rare
Pencil shaped, multi-septate, thin walled, smooth borne singly on conidiophore

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Tichophyton MACROconidia

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Predominant
Spherical, tear shaped or clavate

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Trichophyton MICROconidia

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Trichophyton spp.

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Trichophyton mentagrophytes
Trichophyton rubrum
Trichophyton tonsurans

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Rose or epred-brown underside

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Trichophyton mentagrophytes

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Urease positive

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Trichophyton mentagrophytes

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Perforates hair

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Trichophyton mentagrophytes

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Star-shaped powder colonies

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Trichophyton mentagrophytes

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Microconidia in grapelike clusters

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Trichophyton mentagrophytes

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Deep cherry red or burgundy underside (enhanced on cornmeal or potato dextrose agar)

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Trichophyton rubrum

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Urease negative

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Trichophyton rubrum

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Does not perforate hair

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Trichophyton rubrum

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Tear shaped microconidia

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Trichophyton rubrum

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Tan or yellow rose with crater-like folds and wrinkled centers

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Trichophyton tonsurans

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Balloon shaped microconidia

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Trichophyton tonsurans

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Epidermophyton infects

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Skin, nails, rarely hair

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Club shaped, septate, thin-walled, smooth

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Epidermophyton MACROconidia

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Borne in slingles or cluster of 2-3 conidiophore

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Epidermophyton MACROconidia

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Absent

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Epidermophyton MICROconidia

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Epidermophyton spp.

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Epidermophyton floccosum

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40
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Khaki colored colonies

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Epidermophyton floccosum

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41
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affect deep layers of the skin, organisms found in soil thus feet usually affected, often result from a traumatic skin puncture from thorns or vegetation contaminated with fungi which are usually dematiaceous (darkly pigmented)

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Subcutaneous mycoses

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42
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Fonsecaea pedrosoi
Fonsacaea compactum
Philaophora verrucosa
Cladosporium carrioniii
Exophiala jeanselmi
Exophioala spinifera
Wangiella dermatitidis

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43
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Chronic, non-healing, hard, warty, tumor-like lesions

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Chromoblastomycosis

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Characterized by cauliflower like lesions with SCLEROTIC BODIES” (copper-colored, septate cells)

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Chromoblastomycosis

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Chromoblastomycosis Characterized by cauliflower like lesions with

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Sclerotic bodies

46
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Chromoblastomycosis
Types of (Sporulations)

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Acrotheca
Phialaphora
Cladosporium

47
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Conidia in side

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ACROTHECA:

48
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Conidia in cluster

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PHIALAPHORA:

49
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CLADOSPORIUM

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Conidia in chain

50
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Mixed sporation

51
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Phialaphora sporulation only

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Phialaphora

52
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cladosporium only Chromoblastomycosis

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Cladosporium

53
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Subcutaneous spp

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Chromoblastomycosis
Phaeohyphomycosis
Mycetoma
Sporotrichosis or rose gardeners disease

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Phaeohyphomycosis other term

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Alternaria, Bipolaris, Curvularia, Dreschlera, Exophiala, Phialaphora, Wangiella

55
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Opportunistic infections in subcutaneous

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Phaeohyphomycosis

56
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Chronic granulomatous infection of the cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue and bone

57
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Tumor-like deformities, abscesses, draining sinuses, granulomatous

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Actinomycotic mycetoma:

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Nocardia, Actinomadura, Streptomyces

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Eumycotic mycetoma:

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Pseudoallescheria, Aspergillus, Exophiala, Acremonium, Curvularia, Madurella

60
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Sporothrix or

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Rose garderners disease

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Sporotrichosis or Rose Gardener’s Disease
Caused by

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Sporothrix schenkii

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Dimorphic fungus in subcutaneous

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Sporothrix schenkii

63
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Sporotrichosis mold and yeast form

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Mold form: narrow, septate hyphae with pyriform conidia arranged singly or in Flowerette arrangement

Yeast form: small, elliptoid budding, cigarette - shaped cells

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Colonies become _______ (enhanced on potato dextrose or cornmeal agar), wrinkled and leathery with age

65
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Colonies become black (enhanced on potato dextrose or cornmeal agar), wrinkled and leathery with age

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Sporotrichosis

66
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Usually infects farmers or florists
Introduced by trauma, usually to hand

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Sporotrichosis or Rose Gardener’s Disease

67
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Types of tinea

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Tinea capitis
Tinea barbae
Tinea corporis
Tinea crusis (jock itch)
Tinea Pedis (athletes foot
Tinea unguinum (Onchomycosis)

68
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scalp, eyebrows, and eyelashes

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Tinea capitis

69
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smooth or glabrous skin (trunk)

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Tinea corporis

70
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beard

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Tinea barbae

71
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groin

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Tinea Crusis (jock itch)

72
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Foot

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Tinea pedis

73
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Nais

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Tine unguium

74
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affects the hair and skin

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Microsporum

75
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affects the skin and nails

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Epidermophyton

76
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affects the hair, skin, and nails

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Trichophyton

77
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Growth on rice medium

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M. Canis
M. Gypseum

78
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Woods lamp fluorescence

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M. Canis
M.auduoinii

79
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Abundant Red pigment

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Trichophyton rubrum

80
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Positive in hair baiting test

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Trichophyton mentagrophytes (v shaped penetration)

81
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“balloon-forms” aged microconidia; requires thiamine

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Trichophyton tonsurans

82
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Trichophyton schoenleinii:

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favic chandelier; favus tinea capitis

83
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Macroconidia: rare, 3-5 cells, thin- walled, “rat-tail”

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Trichophyton verrucosum

84
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Favic chandeliers and chlamydospores are common

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Trichophyton schoenleinii

85
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Swollen hyphae containing cytoplasmic granules

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Trichophyton violaceum

86
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What kind of fungus Sporotrichosis? Morphology in yeast and mold form

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Dimorphic

rosette/flowerette/daisy petal conidia

cigar- shaped

87
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Established infections appear as multiple, large, warty, <cauliflower-like= growths

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Chromoblastomycosis

88
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  • Development of slow- growing verrucous nodules plaques
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Chromoblastomycosis

89
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What kind of mold chromoblastomycosis

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Dermatiaceous mold

90
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Chromoblastomycosis in tissue

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In tissue: forms muriform cells (sclerotic bodies/Medler bodies) that are chestnut brown (copper pennies/black granule

91
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formation of abscesses that contain large aggregates of fungal hyphae known as granules or grains

92
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Localized, chronic, granulomatous infections

93
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Fungus-Like Bacteria

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Actinomycotic

94
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composed of branching filaments, Gram-positive beaded rods

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Granules (actinomycotic)

95
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composed of septate fungal hyphae either hyaline or dematiaceous; PAS and GMS positive

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Granules (eumycotic)

96
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Subcutaneous Mucormycosis other name

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Entomophthoromycosis

97
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from traumatic implantation of the fungus present in plant debris

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Subcutaneous Mucormycosis (Entomophthoromycosis)

98
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Conidiobolus coronatus

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(localized to the facial area mostly in adults)

99
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Basidiobolus ranarum

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(proximal limbs in children)

100
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Hyphal fragments surrounded by intensely eosinophilic Splendore-Hoeppli material

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Subcutaneous Mucormycosis (Entomophthoromycosis)

101
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Hyphal fragments are thin walled and poorly staining.

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Subcutaneous Mucormycosis (Entomophthoromycosis)

102
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Require biopsy; histopathologic pictures are marked by focal clusters of inflammation with eosinophils and typical mucormycotic hyphae often surrounded
by eosinophilic Splendore-Hoeppli material.

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Subcutaneous Mucormycosis (Entomophthoromycosis)

103
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rare infection caused by dematiaceous saprobes
which invade organs (skin, lungs, brain) of immunosuppressed hosts

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Phaeohyphomycosis

104
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Phaeohyphomycosis
Cell wall pigmentation ranges from light to dark and may require special stains, such as the

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Fontana-Masson melanin stain

105
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Black molds in culture

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Phaeohyphomycosis

106
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Sporotrichosis causitive agent

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Sporothrix schenckii

107
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Chromoblastomycosis causative agent

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Fonsecaea (mixed sporulation)
Cladosporium (only cladosporium sporulation) Exophiala Cladophialophora
Rhinocladiella
Phialophora (only phialophora sporulation)

108
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Mycetoma causitive agent

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Eumycotic
Exophiala
Phaeoacremonium
Curvularia
Fusarium
Madurella
Pyrenochaeta
Leptosphaeria
Scedosporium
Pseudallescheria boydii (most common)
Actinomycotic (Fungus-Like Bacteria)
Actinomyces
Nocardia

109
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Known as true fungi

110
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most common mycetoma causative agent

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Pseudallescheria boydii

111
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Subcutaneous Mucormycosis (Entomophthoromycosis) causative agent

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Conidiobolus coronatus
Basidiobolus ranarum

112
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Phaeohyphomycosis causative agent

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Exophiala jeanselmei
Wangiella dermatitidis
Bipolaris spp.
Alternaria spp.
Chaetomium spp.
Curvularia spp.
Phialophora spp. among others

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