Fungi Flashcards
Deep/Systemic mycoses (5)
1-Cryptococcosis (Torulosis)
2-North American Blastomycosis (Gilchrist)
3-Paracoccidioidomycosis (S. American Blastomycosis)
4-Coccidioidomycosis
5-Histoplasmosis (Darling)
Subcutaneous Mycoses (localized) (3)
1-Lymphocutaneous Sporotrichosis
2-Chromoblastomycosis
3-Eumycotic Mycetoma
Cutaneous Mycoses (Dermatophytoses!) (3)
1-Microsporum - Ring Worm
2-Trichophyton - Favus (scalp) athlete’s and jock
3-Epidermophyton - Athlete’s and Jock
Superficial Mycoses (organism and disease 4)
1-Malassezia furfur - Pityriasis Versicolor
2-Exophiala werneckii - Tinea nigra
3-Piedraia Hortae - Black piedra
4-Trichosporo beigelii - White Piedra
Conidia
asexual spore outside living membrane
Arthrospores
Pinched off from undifferentiated hyphae.
Coccidioides
Chlamydospores
Thick tough wall at rest.
Blastospores
Buds sprouting from surface of parent.
BUDDING
-Candida and Cryptococcus
Sporangiospores
spores IN sporangium at end of Sporangiophore.
Zygospores
Two undifferentiated hyphae fuse into 1 structure.
Ascospores
Sac, –Ascomycetes
Mucormycosis
NOT dimorphic.
Local and Systemic fungal infections.
-IN and around blood vessels!
Yeast when budding form:
Blastospores