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1
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Micosporum can cause what disease

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Ringworm

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2
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Trichophyton can cause what disease

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Ringworm

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3
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Malassezia can cause what disease

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Dermatitis

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4
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Sporothrix causes what disease

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Sporotrichosis

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5
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Blastomyces can cause what disease

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Blastomycosis

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6
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Histoplasmosis is caused by what fungus

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Histoplasma

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7
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Coccidioides causes what disease

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Lung

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Cryptococcus causes what disease

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Rhinitis

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Candida causes what disease

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Candidiasis

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Aspergillus causes what disease

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Aspergillosis

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11
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Most fungi are aerobic

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12
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What group of fungi?
Multicellular and filamentous, dimorphic

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Mold

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13
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Filamentous means

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Thin in diameter

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14
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What group of fungi?
Unicellular, dimorphic

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Yeast

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15
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What group of fungi ?
Fruiting body of fungi, some are edible some are toxic

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Mushrooms

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16
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What does yeast look like on an agar

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Smooth and glisten

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17
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How does yeast reproduce

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Asexual reproduction by budding

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18
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How does mold reproduce

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Spores, asexually and sexually

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19
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To culture fungi, what are two general agars that can be used

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Sabouraud dextrose and potato dextrose

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20
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To culture fungi what specialized agar can be used

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Dermatophyte test medium (DTM)

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21
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Dermatophytes and mold phase of dimorphic fungi should be stored at what temperature

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Room temp (25c•)

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22
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Aspergillus, yeast, and yeast phase of dimorphic fungi should be stored at what temp

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Body temperature (37c•)

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23
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What is a woods lamp

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Specialized UV light that detects fungal specified that fluoresce, usually on the hair shaft.

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24
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What would you do for a cytology for fungi and why?

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Use potassium hydroxide added to skin scrapings or tissue touch preps to remove host cellular elements

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25
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Mycosis

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Tissue invasion

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26
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Mycotoxicosis

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Toxin production

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27
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Abbie review fungal disease attributes and mechanisms on PowerPoint Ch 41

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28
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What are some characteristics of fungi ?

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They are eukaryotic with cell walls, non-photosynthetic, can be unicellular or multicellular, obtain nutrients from absorption, etc

29
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What are some predisposing factors that expose animals to infection ?

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Immunosuppression, prolonged antibiotic therapy, traumatized tissues, persistent moisture, immunological effects, immaturity, aging, malnutrition, and some neoplastic conditions

30
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What does tape prep do?

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Allows for direct visualization of fungal morphology.

31
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The most common dermatophytes in dogs can be what colors after culturing

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White, yellow, tan, or powdery

32
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How do you perform tape prep for fungal culturing?

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Using acetate tape, a clean glass slide, and a drop of methylene blue; tap the surface of the fungal colony place over the slide with the drop of methylene blue and read slide under 100-400x

33
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Dermatophytes are what type of fungi

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Molds

34
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Only ____% of Micosporum isolate will fluoresce under a woods lamp

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50%

35
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Dermatophytes are located where and are considered aerobic

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Ubiquitous

36
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Dermatophytes that are Environmental saprophytes that are also opportunistic are called

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Geophilic

37
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Dermatophytes that are obligate pathogens, have an animal host preference

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Zoophilic

38
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Dermatophytes that are obligate pathogens that have a human host preference

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Anthropophilic

39
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How does transmission of Dermatophytes happen

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Infected animals
Auto-transmission
Risk factors (environment etc)

40
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What do Dermatophytes produce during culturing

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Microcondidia

41
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Aspergillus species are what type of fungi

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Saprophytic mold and are ubiquitous in the environment

42
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Aspergillus flavus causes

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Aflatoxicosis

43
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Aspergillus fumigatus species does what

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Tissue invasion

44
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Describe how a bird can be exposed to Aspergillosis

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Immunocompromised, dose of spores from inhalation of dust from contaminated litter or feed.
Develop in the nasal or respiratory system. Systemic

45
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Most yeast produce what type of infection

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Opportunistic

46
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Canida Al Ivan’s is commensal where

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MM and Gi of most species

47
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Canida Albicans causes what type of infection and in what animals

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Opportunistic infection in immunocompromised animals and most from entry or invasion from tissues (GI, cloacal, urogenital)

48
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Cryptococcus Neoformans produce what type of infection and how?

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Opportunistic infections from inhalation of contaminated dust (is associated with immunocompromised immune animals)

49
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Cryptococcus disease is seen in what forms in cats

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Nasal, cutaneous l, neural, and ocular forms

50
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Malassezia pachydermitis is what type of fungi

A

Yeast

51
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Malassezia pachydermatis causes opportunistic infection associated with

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Immunosuppression
Moist skin folds
Poor ear conformation
Excessive use of antibiotics

52
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Otitis externa and skinfold dermatitis is caused by what fungi

A

Malassezia pachydermatis

53
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Blastomycosis causes what diseases

A

Asymptomatic diseases
Pneumonia
More if spread systematically

54
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Blastomyces dermatitis is treated with

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Antifungal (itraconazole)

55
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Infection of blastomycosis is caused by what

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Inhalation into the lungs

56
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Sporothrix is transmitted through

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Wounds

57
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Sporothrix lives

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In dead vegetation and worldwide

58
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Sporothrix causes what disease

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Chronic cutaneous or lymphocutaneous(nodular skin lesions that ulcerate)

59
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Associated with impaired cell mediated immunity and causes granulomatous lesions in the lungs

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Histoplasma capsulatum

60
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How is Histoplasma capulatum transmitted

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Inhalation of spores

61
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Histoplasma capsulatum lives where

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Soil

62
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Coccidioides immitis lives where

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Desert soils and semi arid regions

63
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What are biphasic fungi?

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Produce larger than normal Endospores in tissues rather than typical yeast

64
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Causes disease in the lungs, dissemination to bones, skin, and other tissues

A

Coccidioides immitis

65
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What is a mycotoxin

A

Secondary metabolites of certain fungal species they produce toxins under certain circumstances

66
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What are some characteristics of mycotoxins

A

Heat stable
Can be zoonotic from milk or food producing animals
Specific target organs or tissues affected

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