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General concepts in Lab diagnosis Flashcards

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Surface area: Petri dish

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Large (7,500mm2)

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Surface area: Test tube

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Small (1,500mm2)

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Oxygen supply: Petri Dish

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Good

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Oxygen supply: Test tube

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Poor

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Rate of drying: Petri Dish

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Relatively fast

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Rate of drying: Test tube

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Relatively slow

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Security of closure: Petri Dish

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Poor (lid is easily displaced)

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Security of closure: Test tube

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Good

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Probability of dissemination: Petri Dish

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Relatively large

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Probability of dissemination: Test tube

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Relatively small

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Detection of mixed culture: Petri Dish

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Relatively easy

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Detection of mixed culture: Test tube

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Relatively difficult

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13
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Incubation of Mold forms

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25oC to 30oC

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Incubation of Opportunistic and dimorphic organisms

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30oC

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Incubation of Conversion to yeast phase for dimorphic fungi

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25oC to 37oC

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16
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Rapid growers

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< 5 days
Saprobes, opportunistic fungi, yeast

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Intermediate growers

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6 - 10 days
Subcutaneous & opportunistic fungi, dermatophytes

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Slow growers

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> 11 days
Systemic & subcutaneous fungi

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Appears leather-like, or waxy little mycelium, seems to merge with the agar

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Glabrous

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20
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Resembles plush or suede, short aerial hyphae of equal length

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Velvety

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Resembles colonies of other Staphylococcus spp. (formerly CoNS), “bacteria like” but more dry and dull (waxy-pasty). No aerial mycelium, with a delicate fringe around the colonies in BAP

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Yeast like

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Wooly or “Floccose”, large quantities of long aerial hyphae that becomes entangled and may fill the entire petri dish

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Powdery due to heavy conidiation or sporulation, has even hyphae and abundant conidia

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Presence of radial groves from the center of the culture toward the rim

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Random folds (long, short, parallel at right angles or combination)

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Have central depression (concavity) surrounded by raised edges. Resembles S. pneumoniae colonies

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Crateriform

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Have many warts or rough knobs on the surface

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Brain-like convolutions

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Cerebriform

29
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Four methods of Microscopic evaluation of growth in culture

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Tease mount
Scotch tape method
Slide culture
Dalmau method

30
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Recommended for studying yeast morphology. It is performed by using one-fourth or one-third of a cornmeal-Tween 80 agar plate for each organism.

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Dalmau Method

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FOur ways of Preservation of cultures

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storage in water
freezing
mineral oil overlay
lyophilization

32
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Conidia and spores form a fresh culture are washed off in sterile water and placed in labelled vials

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Storage in water

33
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Labelling glass tubes with a screw-capped and placed in a freezer

34
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Layering an entire slant with mineral oil, capping the tube tightly and storing at room temperature

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Mineral oil overlays

35
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Freeze drying with the use of special equipment

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Lyophilization

36
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temperature in freezing preservation of culture

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Aspergillus spp. immunologic assay

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CIE, FEIA, EIA

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Antibod(ies) Antigen(s) detected in Aspergillus spp.

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Aspergillus IgG

39
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helpful in diagnosing allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA), aspergilloma, and Chronic cavitary aspergillosis

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Aspergillus IgG

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Blastomyces spp. assay

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Commercial kits

41
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Blastomyces spp. antibodies or antigens detected

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Antigens (eg., A Ag, WI1 Ag)

42
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limitation of Blastomyces spp. immunologic detection

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lack of sensitivity due to cross- reactivity with dimorphic fungi

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Candida spp. immunologic assay

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Candida spp. Antibod(ies) Antigen(s) detected

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Mannan Ag
Candida IgG, IgM, & IgA

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Cryptococcus spp. assay

46
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Cryptococcus spp. Antibod(ies) Antigen(s) detected

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Cryptococcus IgG, IgM, IgA
Ag: Glucuronoxylmannan

47
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can be a marker for reactivation of disease in solid organ transplant recipient

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Cryptococcus antibodies

48
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A polysaccharide present in the cell wall of many fungi viz., Aspergillus, Candida, Fusarium

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1,3-β-D-glucan

49
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Found in the blood of patients with invasive fungal infections, and its ability to activate factor G of the horse-shoe crab coagulation pathways that allows it to be measured and quantified.

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1,3-β-D-glucan

50
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1,3-β-D-glucan detection is rarely or not present in

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Cryptococcus, Blastomyces, Mucoraceous molds.

51
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Has the ability to detect organisms that are present in small numbers of that cannot be cultured.

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Nucleic acid testing

52
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Nucleic acid testing removes the risks associated wit culturing especially for

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H. capsulatum

53
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Offers the potential to identify pathogens in biopsy samples that have been formalin-fixed and even wax-embedded.

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Nucleic acid testing

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