Finals- Fungal Infections Flashcards
What type of inflammation occurs in deep fungal infections?
Granulomatous inflammation
What is the causative agent for Histoplasmosis?
Histoplasma capsulatum
Histoplasmosis is also known as:
Darling’s disease
This fungi came from excreta of birds, pegions, starling, and blackbirds
Histoplasma capsulatum
What fungal infection has a clinical manifestation of splenomegaly and hepatomegaly?
Histoplasmosis
What is the similarity of histoplasmosis to TB?
Positive (+) histoplasmin skin reaction
A patient came into your clinic and upon checking up, you saw an ulcerated area that are covered by nonspecific gray membrane and is indurated with a raised , roll out borders that resembles carcinoma, what is you diagnosis?
Histoplasmosis
In a histologic finding, when you see a yeasts inside a macrophage what is your diagnosis?
Histoplasmosis
Coccidioidomycosis is also known as:
Valley fever
San Joaquin fever
What is the causative agent for valley fever?
Coccidiodes immitis
Caused by inhalation of dust contaminated by spores
Coccidioidomycosis
What are the 2 basic forms of valley fever?
Primary non-disseminated (self limiting 10-14days) Progressive disseminated (lead to osteomyelitis)
Treatment fo san joaquin fever
Amphotericin B
North american blastomycosis is also known as
Gilchrist’s disease
What is the causative agent in North american blastomycosis
Blastomyces dermatitidis
Gilchrist’s disease is more common in what gender?
Male
What do you call the lesion in gilchrist’s disease?
Crateriform lesion
Oral lesion of gilchrist’s disease resembles:
Epidermoid carcinoma
Oral manifestation of gilchrist’s disease resembles
Actinomycosis
Histological feature shows budding of yeast
blastomycosis
It is also known as Lutz’s disease or paracoccidioidomycosis
South american histoplasmosis
Causative agent of lutz disease
Blastomyces (paracoccidiodes) brasiliensis
This type of blastomycosis enter tissues after extraction
South american
What is the difference between south and north blastomycosis
Causative agent
Size ( south is larger than north)
What is the causative agent if mucormycosis
Mucor
This fungal infection is commly seen in immunosuppressed individual
Mucormycosis
Pain and swelling precedes ulceration in mucormycosis
True
Histological finding shows hyphae
Mucormycosis
T or F
Lung infection is more lethal than URT infection in mucormycosis
T
Treatment for mucormycosis
Amphotericin B
Surgical debridement of URT
Cyrptococcosis is also known as
Turolosis
European blastomycosis
Causative agent of cryptococcosis
Cryptococcus neoformans
Cryptococcus bacillispora
This fungal infection is commonly found in malignant lymphoma
Cyptococcosis
It occurs in patient with visceral or cutaneous lesions or px with leukemia
Crytococcosis
Subcutaneous sporotrichosis is cause by :
Sporothrix schenckii
This fungal infection came from contaminated soil and thorny plants
Subcutaneous sporotrichosis
Subcutaneous sporotrichosis is difficult to diagnose, what medium should you use to have definitive diagnosis
Saboraud agar
Treatment of subcutaneous sporotrichosis
Potassium iodide
Less common with systemic antifungals (ketoconazole)
