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Exam 1. Protists and Fungi Flashcards

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Penicillum

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Source of antibiotics
Very common
Alexander Fleming 1st discovered it
Ascomycota

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Stachybotrys chartarum

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“Sick building syndrome”
Water damage creates toxic mold
Hematologists and neurological damage

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Mucor

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Emerging pathogen
Saprobitic
Murcomycosis
Black bread mold
Issue with immune compromised patients 
Opportunistic
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Rhizopus

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Emerging opportunistic pathogen
Black mold on bread
Necrotizing fasciitis (seen with the tornado incident)
Problem with immune compromised
Ex. When tornado happened and people were injured many contracted this disease.

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5
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Cryptococcus gatti

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EMERGING pathogen

The one spreading in Vancouver

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Claviceps purpurea

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“St. Anthony’s fire”
Salem witch-hunt related
LSD
Produces a toxin causing Ergotism
Killed thousands in Middle Ages
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Trichophyton

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Ringworm
Fungal skin infection in a ringed pattern
All the “tineas”
“Athletes foot”

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Histoplasma capsulatum

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Ohio Valley Fever
 Dimorphic
Soils high in bird guano
True pathogen (most common)
Primary pulmonary infection - Pneumonitis
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Coccidioides immitis

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Valley Fever
True Pathogen 
Infection in skin, bones and CNS
Conidia inhaled from dust.
In chronic pulmonary disease: nodules in lungs
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Sporothrix

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Sporotrichosis
Rose Gardeners disease 
Subcutaneous mycosis
Infects appendages and lungs
Pathogen with intermediate virulence
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Candida albicans

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Dominant opportunistic pathogen
Yeast infection/Thrush
Most common hospital acquired 
HAI
50% fatality rate
70% nosocomial (acquired in hospital)
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Cryptococcus neoformans

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Fungal meningitis
Opportunistic specially with AIDS patients/cancer/diabetes
INVASIVE systemic
Most common cause of death in AIDS patients in US

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Pneumocystis

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Small unicellular
Causes Pneumonia PCP
Most prominent opportunistic infection in AIDS patients

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Aspergillus

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Accounts for most lung infections
Farmers Lungs
Aflatoxin B: one of most potent carcinogen knows
Grows on seeds and legumes
ABPA allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
Severe asthma/ cystic fibrosis patients have sever allergic reactions to fungus
Opportunistic threat to AIDS, Leukemia and immunodeficient patients
A. Flavus
A. Funigatus

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Blastomyces dermatitidis

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Dimorphic
Primary Pathogen
North American Blastomycosis
Cough/fever flue like symptoms 
Not very common 
Forest workers
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Trichomonas vaginalis

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Top STD
3 million cases a year
Trichomoniasis

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Giardia intestinalis

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Intestina Pathogen
10-100 cysts ID
Fecal-oral-route
giardiadis: diarrhea abdominal pain

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Trypanosoma cruzi

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Kissing bug
Emerging and neglected disease
Leading cause of heart disease
Chagas disease 
symptoms can take years before they appear
Central and South America
Mechanical vector : house fly
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Trypanososma brucei gambiense

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African sleeping sickness
Tsetse fly
Affects people and animals
Neglected tropical disease

20
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Leishmania

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Neglected disease
Zoonosis.
Sand fly
Boils, bad and ugly

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Entamoeba histolytica

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Invasive
Schizogany (unlike Giardia) 
Large cause of death
More serious than Giardia
10% fatality rate
perforation, appendicitis, hemorrhage, tumor like growths
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Naegleria fowleri

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100% fatality rate
Nasal contact with water or traumatic eye damage
PAM primary acute meningoencephalitis

23
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Acanthamoeba

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Free-living
severe infections of the eye and nervous system
Can cause blindness

24
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Balantidium coli

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Pathogen
Intestinal parasite
fecal-oral
Ciliated
Found in pigs
healthy humans are resistant
25
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Taxoplasma gondii

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Taxoplasmosis
Acute infection from cats
serious problems for fetus
Can infect any type of tissue
Almost 25% of population could be affected
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Cryptosporidium

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Emerging intestinal pathogen
Bad form immune compromised people
Milwakee

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Plasmodium faliparum

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Malignant malaria

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