Exam 2: Eukaryotes, Protists and Fungi

Question 0

• Fever, cough, chills, headache, chest pain, aches and fatigue.
• Lymph nodes and other parts of body through blood stream.
• Inhalation of spores from soil contaminated with bat crap. Zoonotic disease!

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Histoplasmosis

Question 1

• Small red, pink, or purple painless nodule on the finger, hand or arm. May grow in size looking like wound or ulcer.
• Fungus can grow under skin creating nodules. Can spread to other parts of body if weakened immune system.
• Enters through cut or puncture in skin. Can also get from cats.

Answer 1

Sporotrichosis

Question 2

• 3 Types: Yeast infection symptoms, white patches or plaques on tongue and other oral membranes. If invasive can spread causing fever and chills.
• Crotch and mouth
• Normally caused by persons own flora. Can be transfered sexually as well though. Causes illness in immunocompromised.

Answer 2

Candida albicans

Question 3

• Watery diarrhea, nausea, stomach cramps, dehydration, vomiting, fever and sudden weight loss.
• Oocyst gets through stomach and attaches to wall of intestine affecting epithelial cells.
• Fecal-oral route, untreated water and swimming pools.

Answer 3

Cryptosporidium

Question 4

• Cutaneous, mucosal and visceral infections. Starts as sores and turns to ulcers and can get worse if left untreated.
• Through bite of infected sand fly. May go unnoticed for a long time.

Answer 4

Leishmaniasis

Question 5

• Itchy skin, ring-shaped rash, red scaly cracked skin, and hair loss in affected areas.
• Wherever fungi burrow into skin and release enzymes that digest keratin.
• come from fungal spores that grow in warm damp areas like locker rooms and public floors. can be passed from human to human. Can grow in soil and can be on cats and dogs. Can spread to other parts of body when you scratch infected area and touch somewhere else.

Answer 5

Trichophyton