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Medical Mycology Flashcards

1
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What are fungi?

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Have true nuclei
Have cell walls
Produces spores

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2
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Four classes of fungi

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Fungi imperti
Basidiomycetes
Zygomycetes
Ascomycetes

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Types of fungi infections

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Systemic
Subcutaneous
Cutaneous

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Describe the capsule in fungi?

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Made of poysaccharides, functions are antiphagotic,

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5
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Example of a fungi that has a capsule?

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Cryptococcus neoforman

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Describe cell wall in fungi

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Multilayered , polysaccharides ( hexosomes and hexosamine)
Protein and glycoproteins
Antigenic in nature

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Function of cell wall

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Provides shape, rigidity, strength and protection from osmotic shock.

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8
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Chitin is the polymer what is the monomer

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N-acetyl glucosamine

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9
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Chitosan monomer

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D- glucosamine

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10
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Cellulose, alpha and beta glucan

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D glucose

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Mannan

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D- mannose

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12
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Sterols in fungi

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Ergosterol and zymosterol

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13
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What makes fungi pathogenic?

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Thermotolerance
Ability to survive in tissue Environment
Ability to withstand host defenses ( antiphagotic , large hyphe, professes and elastase facilitate invasion)

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14
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Yeast

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Unicellular
Oval to round
Bud is called a blastomere
Pseudo hyphae
Pasty colonies
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Moulds

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Multicellular
Hyphae
Shape and morphology ( racquet, nodular, spiral, rhizoids, chandelier)

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16
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What is dimorphic?

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Having a yeast phase and a Mycelial form under different conditions

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Yeast form

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Parasitic form
Tissue form
Cultured at 37 degrees

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18
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Mycelial form

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Saprophytic form

Cultured at 25 degrees

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19
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What are spores?

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A reproductive propagule that forms either following meiosis or asexually by a cleavage process.

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20
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Asexual reproduction

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Athrospores
Blastospore
Chlamydospore
Conida microconidia or microconidia

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21
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Sexual

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Zygospore
Ascospore
Basidiospore

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22
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Para sexual reproduction

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Genetic exchange

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23
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Pityriasis vericolor is caused by ……….. and identification of this fungi

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Malassezia furfur ….. spaghetti and meatballs

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24
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White piedra is caused by ……….. and identification of this fungi

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Trichosporum beigelii ……. White nodules on hair shaft of mycelia that fragments into arthrospores.

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25
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Black piedra is caused by ……….. and identification of this fungi

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Piedra hortai …….. Black nodules on hair

26
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Tinea nigra is caused by ……….. and identification of this fungi

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Hortaea werneckii

27
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Cutaneous mycoses are mainly caused by

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Dermatophytes

28
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Tinea unguium

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Nail

29
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Tinea pedis aka athlete foot

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Foot

30
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Endothrix

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Hair shaft interior

31
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Ectothrix

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Hair shaft surface

32
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Tines cruris

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Jock , groin

33
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Cutaneous infections are caused by

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Trichophyton sp, epidermphyton sp

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Subcutaneous

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Confined to subcutaneous tissue and rarely spread to systemic.
Soil organism into extremities by trauma.

35
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Sporotrichosis is caused by

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Sporothrix schenckii …….. Rosette pattern on culture At 25

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Symptoms of sporotrichosis

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Nodules and ulcers along lymphatics at the site of inoculation

37
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Chromoblastomycosis caused by

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Fonsecacea pedroso, compacta , wangiella dermatitdis……. Copper color balls called medlar bodies in tissues

38
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Warty nodules that progress to cauliflower like appearance at site if inoculation

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Chromoblastomycosis

39
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Mycetoma is caused by

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Pseudallescheria boydii, madurella grisea, madurella mycetomatis

40
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Mycetoma symptoms

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Draining sinus at site of inoculation

41
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Systemic infection

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Involve skin and deep viscera
Maybe widely disseminated
Predilection for specific organs

42
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Histoplasma capsulatum

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Dimorphic 
Tuberculate microconidia (sunflower)
43
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Paracoccidiodes brasiliensis

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Ship wheel ,

44
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Blastomyces dermatitidis

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Yeast cells are medium size with thick walls

45
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Coccidiodes imitis

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Spherules are multinucleated

46
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Cryptococcosis neoformans

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Only fungi with a capsule .

47
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Candidiasis is caused by

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Candidasis

48
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Aspergillosis is caused by

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Apergillus fumigatus

49
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Zygomycosis is caused by

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Rhizopus sp, absidia sp, mucor sp

50
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Diagnosis of systemic

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Culture
Histology
Serologic alp testing
Molecular

51
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Cryptococcosis is tested by

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Latex agglutination for antigen

52
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Aspergillosis tested

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EIA for galactomannan antigen

53
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Laboratory diagnosis

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Gram stain, KOH, India ink or calcofluor white
Culture , SDA, mycobiotic agar
Serology

54
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Polyene drugs attack

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Ergesterol

55
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Examples of polyene derivatives

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Amphotericin B, nyastain

56
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Azolesinhibitthe synthesis of ergosterol blocking the action of 14 alpha demethylase

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Ketoconazole
Fluconazole
Itraconazole
Voriconazole
Posaconazole
57
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Mechanisms of amphorericin B

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Binds to sterols, has a greater avidity for ergosterol , binding to fungal cell alters the permeablity and intracellular contents to leak

58
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Griseofulvin

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Skin and nails

59
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5- fluorocytosine

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Inhibits DNA synthesis

60
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Allylamines

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Terbinafine ( lamas ill)

61
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Echinocandins

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Inhibit the synthesis of beta-d- glucan in fungal cell wall

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