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1
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this organism causes Tinea versicolor?

A

Malassezia furfur

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this organism causes TInea nigra?

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dematiaceous fungi

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this organism causes Anthrophilic tinea capitis?

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Microsporum audouinii and also Epidermophyton rubrum

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this organism causes Zoophilic tinea capitis?

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Microsporum canis or Trichophyton mentagrophytes, also T. rubrum

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this organism causes Black dot tinea capitis?

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Trichophyton tonsurans

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this organism causes Tinea barbae?

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Trichophyton verruscosum

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this organism causes Tinea corporis?

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T. rubrum, T. mentagrophytes, M. canis

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this organism causes Tinea cruris?

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E. floccosum, T. rubrum, T. mentagrophytes, Candida

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this organism causes Tinea pedis?

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caused by T. rubrum, T. mentagrophytes, E. floccosum

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this organism causes Favus or Tinea favosa?

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T. schoenleinii

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this organism causes oral thrush, vulvovaginitis, and grows in moist places?

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Candida spp.

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this organism causes Sporotrichosis, Rose Gardner’s Disease?

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Sporothrix schenckii

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this organism causes Eumycotic mycetoma?

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Pseudoallescheria boydii and Madurella sp

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this organism causes chromoblastomycosis?

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dematiaceous fungi

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a thermally dimorphic facultative fungi with no capsule, endemic in the great river plains of the Ohio, Missouri, Mississippi rivers and St. Lawrence seaway and in latin America

causes due to bat caves, old chicken coups, starling roosts, high level of spores

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Histoplasma capsulatum

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thermally dimorphic fungus found as filamentous with small conidia in rotting wood, found in places as Histoplasma plus US seacoasts

found in tissue as large yeast, cell of glycoprotein WI-1 and triggers Th2 response

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Blastomyces dermatitidis

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this thermally dimorphic organism is associated with the San Joaquin Valley and Lower Sonoran Desert?

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Coccidiodes immitis

18
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this fungi is associated with pigeon droppings, CNS growth, AIDs, Leukemia, and once systemic can get into the brain and causes Cryptococcal meningitis or meningoencephalitis

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Cryptococcus neoformans

19
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Asperigilloses is caused by these fungi?

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Asperigillus fumigatus, A, niger, species of Aspergillus

20
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Rhinocerebral zygomycoses is caused by this?

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nonseptate fungi, phylum zygomycota genera:
Rhizopus
Absidia
Mucor
Rhizomucor
21
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Pneumocystis pneumonitis or pneumonia infections is caused by?

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Pneumoncytis jiroveci

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