Fungi Flashcards

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Deep/Systemic mycoses (5)

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1-Cryptococcosis (Torulosis)
2-North American Blastomycosis (Gilchrist)
3-Paracoccidioidomycosis (S. American Blastomycosis)
4-Coccidioidomycosis
5-Histoplasmosis (Darling)

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Subcutaneous Mycoses (localized) (3)

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1-Lymphocutaneous Sporotrichosis
2-Chromoblastomycosis
3-Eumycotic Mycetoma

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Cutaneous Mycoses (Dermatophytoses!) (3)

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1-Microsporum - Ring Worm

2-Trichophyton - Favus (scalp) athlete’s and jock

3-Epidermophyton - Athlete’s and Jock

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Superficial Mycoses (organism and disease 4)

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1-Malassezia furfur - Pityriasis Versicolor
2-Exophiala werneckii - Tinea nigra
3-Piedraia Hortae - Black piedra
4-Trichosporo beigelii - White Piedra

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Conidia

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asexual spore outside living membrane

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Arthrospores

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Pinched off from undifferentiated hyphae.

Coccidioides

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Chlamydospores

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Thick tough wall at rest.

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Blastospores

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Buds sprouting from surface of parent.

BUDDING
-Candida and Cryptococcus

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Sporangiospores

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spores IN sporangium at end of Sporangiophore.

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Zygospores

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Two undifferentiated hyphae fuse into 1 structure.

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Ascospores

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Sac, –Ascomycetes

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Mucormycosis

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NOT dimorphic.
Local and Systemic fungal infections.

-IN and around blood vessels!

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Yeast when budding form:

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Blastospores

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