Intro To Medical Mycology Flashcards
Example of multicellular
Molds
Example of unicellular
Yeast
Fungi doesn’t have cell wall or peptidoglycan, instead they have
Chitin
What is heterotrophs
Unable to make their own food
Fungi loves
Oil surfaces
Cell membrane of fungi has —— that is targeted by the anti fungal treatment
Ergosterol
Fungal form
-mushroom (macro organism)
-Yeast (unicellular
-molds (multicellular)
Medically important fungi
-Basidiomycota
-Zygomycota
-hyaline hyphomycete
-Dematiaceous hyphomycete
-Ascomycota
True or false: There are 1.5 million species of fungi and 300 of those are medically important
True
True or false: Antibiotic can’t kill fungi
Yes because fungi doesn’t have cell wall or peptidoglycan
-fast growing and characterized by primitive coencytic hyphae -mostly aseptate (no division)
-causes acute and fulminant opportunistic systems mycoses in immunosuppressed and acidotic diabetes px
Zygomycetes
Medically important zygomycetes
- Entomophthorales : subcutaneuos zygomycosis
- Mucorales : subcutaneous and systemic zygomycosis
Subcutaneous zygomycosis
Entomophthorales
Example of entomophthorales (subcutaneous zygomycosis)
-Basidiobolus and condiobolus
Subcutaneous and systemic zygomycosis
Mucorales
Example of mucorales (subcutaneous and systemic zygomycosis)
Mucor and rhizopus
Structure of rhizopus spp
Rootlike
Mucor spp when mature it has
Sporangia
2 types of hyphae
Aseptate and septate
Has no division
Aseptate