Fungi basics and drugs Flashcards

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There are 3 classes of fungi that cause human infection, namely A__, B___ and M___

A

Ascomyctes (that *ss CO is on my cete! (seat)

Basidiomycetes (includes mushrooms and Cryptococcus – affects the brain and causes infection in HIV patients)

Mucormycetes – destroy sinuses, go into brain and kill (mucormycetes kill your mucus, mygrate to your brain and cete it on fire)

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Which yeast is the only one with a capsule and commonly affects HIV patients? (hint: its one of the Basidiomycetes)

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Cryptococcus is a real gansta – it’s the only yeast that has a CAPSULE (and remember this the nigga that affects HIV patients)

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Which yeast has hyphae, pseudohyphae and yeast?

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Candida albicans (your bug candida in your room)

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Candida albicans has 2 important distinguishing features: the pseudohypha, and __ (hint: looks the handle of a ping pong paddle)

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A germ tube!!

Candida albicans is Germ tube positive: identification clue. When you incubate in RPMI solution or serum solution, within 2 hrs @ 37degrees, an elongated structure forms (it makes the yeast look like a ping pong paddle handle)

**non albicans species tend to be resistant to meds so you need to know which kinda Candida you’re dealing with**

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Name an organism that has dichotomous and septate hyphae

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Apsergillus is a dichotomously branching, septate organism (septate just means its segmented, kinda like a segmented worm)

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Name an organism that has right angled, non septate hypha

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Mucormycetes (e.g. Rhizopus spp)

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Fungi can exist in 2 forms, namely__

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Mould and yeast

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What is the difference between mould and yeast?

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Mould are what they are in the environment

Yeast: what they become inside our bodies when we inhale their spores!

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Name 3 of the thermally dimorphic fungi (hint: when you’re having a blast with a bunch of nerds, you open a wine bottlewith a cockscrew and watch the histry channel on a plasma screen)

A

when you’re having a blast with a bunch of nerds, you open a wine bottle with a cockscrew and watch the history channel on a plasma screen:

Blastomyces

Coccidiodes

Histoplasma

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State the features of Blastomyces in the body

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Blastomyces in the host: pyogranulomatous infection with a bunch of budding yeast

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State the features of Coccidiodes in the body

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Spherical yeast; releases endospores that damage the lungs

(coccidiodes got spores in spheres!)

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State the features of Histoplasma in the body

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Makes tiny yeast forms that sequester themselves within macrophages

(Histoplasma hides in macrophages)

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What is the role of a capsule in fungi?

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Antiphagocytic/basically immune system evasion

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The main components of a fungal cell wall are ___

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Mannoproteins

Beta (1, 3) glucans

Chitin

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What is the carbohydrate that is in Aspergillus that is not in Candida spp?

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Galactomannan

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16
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A __ polymorphism puts one at increased risk for apsergillosis and candidiasis infection

17
Q

Polymorphisms in MBL and __ cause an increased risk of Candidiasis

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MBL (esp in kids, pediatric oncology patients), and Dectin-1

(D comes after C, D for dectin 1 polymorphism)

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__ have simple septa, Basidiomycetes produce ___ and ___ have few - no septa

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Ascomycetes - have simple septa

Basidiomycetes - produce elaborate septa (called dolipore)

Mucormycetes - few to no septa

19
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Which bug is this?

A

These are Aspergillus conidia

20
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Which bug is this?

A

This is Rhizopus (mucorales sporangiospores)

21
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Name 5 virulence factors of fungi

A

Cell surface receptors

Hydrolytic enzymes

Host mimicry

Polysaccharide capsule (only Cryptococcus really)

Melanin production

**

Host mimicry (e.g. Candida)

Melanin production: e.g. Aspergillus has melanin on its conidia that allow it to bypass host defense and establish itself in the lungs; Cryptococcus has melanin that serves as an oxidative sink (absorbs the oxidative intermediates produced by immune cells)

22
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Which fungi will only exhibit budding yeast forms in tissues?

A

cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis, blastomycosis, and sporotrichosis

(tales from the crypts: a history of the blast of the spor-os)

23
Q

Which fungi exhibit budding yeast forms AND hyphae

A

Candidiasis

Tinea versicolor

(A CT has no color?)

24
Q

Which particular fungus exists as a spherule in tissues?

A

coccidiodomycosis

25
Which stain is used to differentiate host response, but not sensitive for detection of fungi? (hint: this is a very standard go to stain)
H and E
26
Which stain stains the polysaccharide wall of fungi? (hint: name sounds like Sheriff)
Periodic acid schiff
27
The GMS stain is a silver stain that does what 2 things?
Stains fungal cell wall silver and allows one to see background of cellular response
28
Mucicarmine/Alcian blue stain which organism?
Mucicarmine/Alcian blue: specifically for Cryptococcus neoformans capsule
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What does Fontana Masson stain?
stains melanin (Fontana Masson is this white dude that ain’t got no melanin so he stains himself brown)
30
What are the 4 categories used to classify fungal infections?
Superficial Mucocutaneous Subcutaneous Deep mycoses (opportunistic, pathogenic)