Dimorphic Fungi and Pathogenic Yeasts

Question 1

Blastomyces dermatitidis

Answer 1

Large yeast broad based buds

Question 2

Histoplasma capsulatum

Answer 2

tiny budding yeast often inside macrophages, from bird droppings in ohio

Question 3

Coccidioides immitis

Answer 3

Large spherucles with multiple endospores. Conidia form are hyphal chains of rectangles.

Question 4

paracoccidioides braziliensis

Answer 4

large yeast with multiple buds

Question 5

candida albicans

Answer 5

hyphae pseudophyphae yeast (placed in serum, elongate to “germ tubes”. Ubiquitous

Question 6

Cryptococcus neoformans

Answer 6

heavily encapsulated yeast

Question 7

Sporothrix schenckii

Answer 7

cigar shaped yeast

Question 8

Large yeast broad based buds

Answer 8

Blastomyces dermatitidis

Question 9

tiny budding yeast often inside macrophages

Answer 9

Histoplasma capsulatum

Question 10

Large spherucles with multiple endospores

Answer 10

Coccidioides immitis

Question 11

large yeast with multiple buds

Answer 11

paracoccidioides braziliensis

Question 12

hyphae pseudophyphae yeast (placed in serum, elongate to “germ tubes”

Answer 12

candida albicans

Question 13

pneumocystis carnii ( P. jirovecci)

Answer 13

dark cysts

Question 14

dark cysts

Answer 14

pneumocystis carnii ( P. jirovecci)