Module 12- Part 1: Fungal Pathogens

Question 1

What is the study of fungi called?

Answer 1

Mycology

Question 2

What is the name for the type of organisms that obtain their nutrients from dead organic matter?

Answer 2

Saprophytes

Question 3

What is the digestive enzyme secreted by fungi?

Answer 3

Exoenzyme

Question 4

What is the small reproductive body that is produced by a fungi to help it survive and reproduce?

Answer 4

Spore

Question 5

What is the scientific name for baker’s yeast?

Answer 5

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Question 6

What does Saccharomyces cerevisiae translate to in common terms?

Answer 6

Sugar fungus of the beer

Question 7

What are mycoses?

Answer 7

Fungal species that cause disease

Question 8

What are the 2 categories that fungi can be broken down into?

Answer 8

Yeasts and molds

Question 9

What are two examples of molds?

Answer 9

Penicillium chrysogenum and Aspergillus niger

Question 10

What is the body of molds or fungi called?

Answer 10

The thallus

Question 11

What are the long, branching threads found in fungi?

Answer 11

Hyphae

Question 12

What term means “containing hyphae?”

Answer 12

Septate

Question 13

What is an example of septate fungi that is opportunistic and found in human lung tissue?

Answer 13

Aspergillus fumigatus

Question 14

What is the term that means a fungi does not have hyphae?

Answer 14

Nonseptate

Question 15

What is the region of fungi that contain a tangled mass of hyphae?

Answer 15

Mycelium

Question 16

What is an example of a fungi that has mycelium?

Answer 16

Rhizopus mycelium

Question 17

What are the two types of asexual reproduction that fungi can perform?

Answer 17

Budding or fission

Question 18

What is an example of an organism that performs budding?

Answer 18

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Question 19

What is an example of an organism that performs fission?

Answer 19

Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Question 20

Which type of asexular reproduction is “unequal division?”

Answer 20

Budding

Question 21

Which type of asexual reproduction is “equal splitting?”

Answer 21

Fission

Question 22

What is the term for fungi that look like they contain hyphae but don’t?

Answer 22

Pseudohyphae

Question 23

What is an example of a pseudohyphae fungi?

Answer 23

Candida albicans

Question 24

What is the term for fungi that sometimes look like a mold and sometimes look like a yeast?

Answer 24

Dimorphic

Question 25

What are the 3 phylum of fungi?

Answer 25

Zygomycota, ascomycota, and basidiomycota

Question 26

Zygomycota are also known as...

Answer 26

Conjugation fungi

Question 27

Ascomycota are also known as...

Answer 27

Sac fungi

Question 28

Basidiomycota are also known as...

Answer 28

Club fungi

Question 29

What are the 5 types of mycoses?

Answer 29

Systemic, subcutaneous, cutaneous, superficial, and opportunistic

Question 30

What is the genus for valley fever or San Joaquin valley fever?

Answer 30

Coccidiomycosis

Question 31

What is the term for a disease that is always present in some degree?

Answer 31

Endemic

Question 32

What is the scientific name for the dimorphic fungus that causes skin abscesses, UTI, meningitis, and heart inflammation?

Answer 32

Coccidioides immitis

Question 33

What is the term for the fungal form of Coccidioides immitis that gets into the human lungs and reproduces?

Answer 33

Pherule

Question 34

What type of mycoses is Coccidioides immitis?

Answer 34

Systemic

Question 35

What type of mycoses is Sporothrix schenckii?

Answer 35

Subcutaneous

Question 36

What is the scientific name for "rose growers disease?"

Answer 36

Sporothrix schenckii

Question 37

What is the steroid found in the plasma membrane of fungi?

Answer 37

Ergosterol

Question 38

How do azole drugs work against fungi?

Answer 38

They stop fungi from making ergosterols. The plasma membrane will break down and the cells will die.

Question 39

What are dermatophytes?

Answer 39

Fungi that only infect the epidermis, hair, and nails

Question 40

What is the enzyme that is found in dermatophytes that allows them to use keratin as a nutrient source?

Answer 40

Keritinase

Question 41

What is the scientific name for jock itch?

Answer 41

Tinea cruris

Question 42

What is the scientific name for athlete's foot?

Answer 42

Tinea pedis

Question 43

What is the scientific name for the condition that causes flakey skin on the head of children?

Answer 43

Tinea capitis

Question 44

What is the scientific name for the fungal infection that affects the toenails and fingernails?

Answer 44

Tinea unguium

Question 45

What is the scientific name for the fungal species that causes tinea or ringworm?

Answer 45

Malassezia furfur

Question 46

What type of mycoses is Malassezia furfur?

Answer 46

Cutaneous

Question 47

What type of mycoses if found alson hair shafts and the surface of epidermal cells?

Answer 47

Superficial

Question 48

What is the scientific name for the common cause of dandruff?

Answer 48

Malassezia globosa

Question 49

What fungus causes tinea versicolor?

Answer 49

Malassezia globosa

Question 50

What type of mycoses is usually harmless but can be pathogenic in an immunocompromised host?

Answer 50

Opportunistic

Question 51

What is the scientific name for the fungus that causes pneumonia?

Answer 51

Pneumocystis jiroveci

Question 52

What is the scientific name for the fungus that causes candidiasis?

Answer 52

Candida albicans

Question 53

What fungus causes oral thrush, esophageal lesions, and vaginal yeast infections?

Answer 53

Candida albicans

Question 54

What is the encapsulated yeast that causes cryptococcosis?

Answer 54

Cryptococcus neoformans

Question 55

Where is cryptococcus neoformans typically found?

Answer 55

Soil and bird droppings

Question 56

What special staining technique is used to view Cryptococcus neoformans?

Answer 56

India ink