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  • fewer effective agents because of similarity of fungal cells and human cells
  • easier to treat superficial mycoses than systemic infections
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Antifungal Drugs

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Sterol found in fungal cell membranes; human cells have cholesterol instead of ergosterol

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Ergosterol

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-bind ergosterol in fungal membranes
Drugs cause altered membrane permeability,leakage of cell constituents, and cell death
bind cholesterol in mammalian cells, but less strongly than ergosterol
•this is basis for drug toxicity
•filipin is toxic due to binding of cholesterol

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Polyene compounds

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______ is a polyene compound used for systemic disease

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Amphotericin B

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______ is a polyene compound used for topical disease

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Nystatin

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  • block ergosterol synthesis by inhibiting squalene epoxidase activity
  • terbinafine
  • mainly effective on the dermatophytes topical or tablet formulations
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Allylamines

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______ block ergosterol synthesis by inhibiting cytochrome P450-dependent 14a-lanosterol demethylation

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Azoles

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First oral azole (significant number of side effect and drugs interactions).

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Ketoconazole

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Supplants ketoconazole
Active against many fungi and has improved safety profile.
Active against Candida species, Cryptococcus, Aspergillus, endemic (systemic) fungi, and dermatophytes.

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Itraconazole

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_______:
inhibit synthesis of b-(1,3)-D-glucan, an essential component of fungal cell walls.
More selective than agents that target cell membrane components.
Narrow spectrum: active against Aspergillus and Candida species; these fungi have larger amounts of b-(1,3)-D-glucan

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Echinocandins

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______ is an Echinocandins

  • Intravenous use
  • minimal toxicity
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Caspofungin

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-interferes with fungal protein and DNA synthesis
Active against Candida species and Cryptococcus neoformans
Always used in combination with another antifungal because resistance develops quickly if used alone

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Pyrimidine inhibition

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_____: (candida species)predominant species colonizing humans responsible for most infections

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Candida albicans

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_____: (candida species) resistant to some antifungals

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Candida glabrata

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_____: (candida species) common cause of catheter-related infections

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Candida parapsilosis

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In candida, Adequate _______ function protects against invasive infection

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neutrophil

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______ and ________ protect against mucosal candidiasis.

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Local factors and T-cell mediated defense system

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Other host factors associated with protection against ______ infections:
salivary flow and constituents
blood group & secretor status
epithelial barrier,presence of normal bacterial flora

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Candida

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Which antifungal acts on the ergosterol biosynthesis pathway and opposes squalene epoxidase?

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Terbinafine

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Which antifungal acts on the ergosterol biosynthesis pathway and opposes C14-demethylase?

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Itraconazole

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_____ candida is characterized by multiple removable white plaques

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Acute pseudomembranous candida

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_____ candida is characterized by generalized redness of tissue

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Acute Erythematous

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_____ candida is characterized by fixed white plaques on commissures

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Chronic plaque-like/nodular candida

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_____ candida is characterized by generalized redness of tissue on fitting surface up upper denture

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Chronic erythematous candida

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_____ candida is characterized by bilateral cracks on angles of mouth

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Candida-assocaited angular chelitis

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_____ candidiasis
Thrush
lesions on palate that are easily wiped off

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(a) Pseudomembranous candidiasis

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_____ candidiasis at the commissure of the upper and lower lips (mucosal surfaces) (cannot be removed by scraping)
•Also called chronic hyperplastic candidiasis or candidal leukoplakia
•Up to 40% of lesions develop into oral cancer

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c) Plaquelike/nodular candidiasis

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_____ candidiasis on the palatal mucosa of an edentulous, full-denture wearing patient

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b) Chronic erythematous candidiasis

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_____ candidiasis: at commissures of the mouth, involving skin
Frequently has bacterial component involved

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Angular cheilitis

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Diagnosis of ______ candidiasis: scrape and look under the microscope culture

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Mucosal candidiasis

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Diagnosis of ______ candidiasis: blood culture not sensitive
biopsy of involved tissue
microscopy culture

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Invasive candidiasis

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_____ methods to visualize fungi in clinical samples:
periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) -surface carbohydratepotassium hydroxide (KOH)-tissue dissolves, fungi do not (chitin)Grocott-Gomori methenamine silver-surface carbohydrateGridleys method-modification of PASCalcofluor white-fluorescent probe for chitin

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Staining

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_______: is often resistant to medicines

  • causes serious infections
  • becoming more common
  • Difficult to ID
  • spreads in hospitals and nursing homes
  • people that get this are usually already sick
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C. auris

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____ is found worldwide in soil contaminated with bird excreta.
20% of patients with cryptococcosis appear to be immunocompetent.
Yeast cells are inhaled in alveoli and begin to produce a polysaccharide capsule.capsule inhibits phagocytosis and intracellular killing (if cells phagocytosed)
T-cell immunity crucial to infection control
melanin production in cell wall enhances virulence resists free radicals and enzyme degradation

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C. neoformansis

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Primary pulmonary infection is usually asymptomatic
has a striking neurotropism (basis is unknown)
minimal inflammatory response with CNS infection
Patients often present with meningitis, which worsens

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C. neoformansis

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______ is diagnosed via cryptococcal meningitis -examine CSF for encapsulated budding yeast latex agglutination test for capsular polysaccharide antigen (CSF fluid and serum)
Treatment: cryptococcal meningitis and sometimes lifelong therapy required (patients with T cell defects)

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C. neoformansis

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acquired from the environment by inhalation of conidia
grow as hyphae in immunosuppressed individuals
usually a pulmonary or sinus infection
angioinvasive -growth through blood vessel walls
cause tissue infarction, hemorrhage, necrosis

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Aspergillosis

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Diagnosis: culture on Sabourauds agar (grows in a few days)caution: contamination from environment can easily occurtissue biopsy
Treatment: high mortality
expanded-spectrum azole voraconazole
decreased exposure (filtered air)

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Aspergillosis

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Rhizopus and Mucor are main genera in this group aseptate, broad hyphae
angioinvasive in addition to standard risk groups, patients with diabetes mellitus with ketoacidosis-acidosis reduces neutrophil chemotaxis and phagocytosis
Rhinocerebral -spread from nares/sinuses to palate, orbit, face then to brain Treatment amphotericin B and aggressive surgical debridement

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Zygomycosis

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Pneumocystis jiroveci- organism has never been grown in vitro
most people likely are infected early in life, but disease only occurs due to immunosuppression (T cell deficiency most common risk factor)
This pneumonia most common opportunistic infection in AIDS patients before effective antiviral therapy
Organism rarely found outside lungs
Treatment -trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (also used prophylactically)target folic acid synthesis and utilization note: P. jiroveci lacks ergosterol

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Pneumocystosis

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