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Primary infections by these systemic mycoses causing organisms are usually in the

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Lung

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Most primary infections are inapparent and self-limiting, recognized only by immune response or

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X-ray

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Organisms are dimorphic, grow as yeast in tissue and mycelia in culture under usual conditions

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Systemic mycoces organisms

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The organisms that cause systemic mycoses can be converted to yeast form by culture on

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Blood agar

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Cultures of mold forms are identified by reaction of soluble antigens with specific antisera. This is called the

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Exoantigen test

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This is an Oucherlony double-diffusion test; a line of identity is considered

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Diagnostically significant

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A dimorphic fungus; in tissue Cryptococcus grows as a heavily

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Encapsulated yeast

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A dimorphic fungus; in tissue Cryptococcus grows as a heavily encapsulated yeast. It is the imperfect stage of a

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Basidiomycete Filobasidiella

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Like S. pneumoniae, H. influenzae, and N. meningitidis, it is a heavilyencapsulated pathogen that initially infects the respiratory tract and can spread from there to the brain and/or meninges

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Cryptococcus

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Straddles the boundary between ‘pathogen’ and ‘opportunist’

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Candida

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In clinical material, can appear as yeast, hyphae, or pseudophyphae

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C. albicans

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A diagnostic feature which separates C. albicans from other Candida is formation of

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“Germ tubes” when yeast are placed in serum

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Buds which in serum elongate to form the beginnings of hyphae

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Germ tubes

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Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis is a hallmark of defects in

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Cell-mediated immunity

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Ubiquitous; important pathogens of AIDS patients, transplant recipients, and patients receiving anticancer therapy

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Opportunistic fungal pathogens

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What are three examples of opportunistic fungal pathogens?

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Aspergillus, zygomyces, and pneumocystis carinii

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A large genus, ubiquitous in soil and plant material.

-The most frequent pathogen is A. fumigatus although other species are common causes of disease

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Aspergillus

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The most frequent pathogen of aspergillus is

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A. fumigatus

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Most aspergillus infections are

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Pulmonary

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Most aspergillus infections are pulmonary. Infection can be local and non-invasive [‘Aspergilloma’] or invasive and

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Necrotizing

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Can cause thrombosis, infarction, necrosis, and hemorrhage if they penetrate the walls of a blood vessel, and can also disseminate the infection to other sites

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Hyphae

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A potent allergen and can cause severe bronchopulmonary reactions in atopic individuals and those heavily [occupationally] exposed

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Aspergillus

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We can treat aspergillus infections with

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Amphotericin/fluorocytosine or one of the newer azoles

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Even with treatment, mortality from aspergillus infection is

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50-90%

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Cause upper or lower respiratory tract disease in immunodeficient patients

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Zygomyces [Mucor, Rhizopus]

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Tissue hyphae from zygomycetes can be distinguished from those of other fungi by their breadth, sparse/absent septae, tendency to branch at

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Right angles

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Other fungi tend to branch at

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Acute angles

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A ubiquitous organism, to which virtually 100% of the U.S. population develops antibodies in childhood

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Pneumocystis carinii

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Prior to widespread prophylaxis, many AIDS patients developed

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Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia [PCP]

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Diagnosis is usually made by staining broncho-alveolar lavage fluid

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Pneumocystis carinii infection

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What are the three genera of opportunists that infect humans?

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Encephalitozoon, Enterocytozoon, and Nosemia

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Transmission is via contaminated food or water. Life cycle is similar to that of Apicomplexa

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Opportunists

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The infectious form of the opportunist is the

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Spore

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Inside the spore wall the cytosol of the microsporidian is continuous with the lumen of a long coiled

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Polar filament

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When a spore contacts a host cell the filament everts and pierces the host-cell

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Plasma membrane

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Osmotic flow of water into the spore forces the cytoplasm of the parasite through the polar filament and into the cytosol of the host cell, where it becomes surrounded by

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Membrane

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Once inside a host cell, a spore develops into a trophozoite and then a

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Schizont

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After further mitotic and meiotic divisions and formation of zygotes, infectious spores are formed and released by

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Host-cell lysis

39
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Have the smallest genomes of any eukaryotes

  • 2 mb, smaller than many bacteria
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Microsporidia

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Mostly intestinal, eye, or systemic infections, although any tissue can become infected

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Microsporidia opportunists

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An infected expectant mother can infect her fetus transplacentally if the infectio is from

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Microsporidia

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Used to treat intestinal microsporidia infections

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Albendazole

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Have been used successfully to treat microsporidial eye infections

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Azoles

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The “Rose Gardener’s” disease

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Sporotrichosis (caused by S. Shcenkii)

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Macro life with an Amphipathic ring structure

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Amphotericin B

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The non-polar side binds tightly to ergosterol in fungal cell membranes and the polar side forms pores for leak from cells

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Amphotericin

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The crucial link between amphotericin and ergosterol

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Mycosamine sugar unit

48
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Drug of choice for almost all life-threatening systemic fungal infections

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Amphotericin B

49
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Flucytosine is removed by the kidney in

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3-6 Hours

50
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Unlike amphotericin B which binds directly to ergosterol, these drugs target the 3rd step in the biosynthesis of ergosterol

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Azoles

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Cause accumulation of toxic methylsterols that inhibit membrane enzymes

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Azoles

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Binds less efficiently to mammalian p450s,offering some specificity toward fungal cells

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Azoles

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The most potent azole

  • wide spectrum
  • used orally
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Itraconazole

54
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Triazole that least affects the liver enzymes?

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Fluconazole

55
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Newest anti-fungal agents

-cell wall disrupters

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Echinocandins

56
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Water-soluble semi-synthetic lipopeptide derivative of pneumocandin B

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Echinocandins

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