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Micro: Mycology Flashcards

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Microconidia: “tear-drop” shap
Macroconida: “ “pencil-shaped”

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T. rubrum/ T. mentagrophytes

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Bamboo hyphae

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M. ferrugineum

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skin charac. of trichophyton

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ring-shaped appearance

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beaver tails

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Epidermophyton floccosum

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Barrel-shaped thick walled cells

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Arthrospores/Arthoconidia

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“LOLLIPOP conidia”

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Blastomycosis/ Gilcrhrist’s Disease/Chicago Disease/ North American Blastomycosis

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  1. Chains of alternate ✅ BARREL-SHAPED ARTHROCONIDIA / ✅ “cob-web” like growth / ✅ rope-like strands/ ✅ racquet forms
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Coccidiodomycosis/Cocci/ Desert Fever/Valley fever/ Desert Rheumatism/ “The Bumps”/ San Joaquin Valley Fever/ Posadas Werneckii

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“MARINER’S WHEEL”’

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Almeida’s disease -

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Spaghetti and meatball appearance

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Pityriasis versicolor - Malassezia furfur complex.

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white-pinkish, granular
and fluffy colonies
 rice medium negative

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M. audonii

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✅ ellipsoidal with blunt/rounded ends

✅ Cinnamon powdery colored colony

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M. gypseum

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Macroconidia: cigar-shaped Microconidia: grape-like cluster

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T. mentagrophytes

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Macroconidia: pencil-shaped Microconidia: tear-drop

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T. rubrum

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Chlamydoconidia: balloon-shaped

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T. concentricum

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Macroconidia: balloon-shaped Microconidia: club-shaped, tear- drop

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T. tonsurans

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Macroconidia: ✅Rat-tail Microconidia: large tear-drop, pyriform

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T. verrucosum

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Macroconidia: club-shaped in pairs

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E. flocossum

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  • Infection that involves the skin and subcutaneous tissue
  • Habitat: soil
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SUBCUTANEOUS MYCOSES

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Rose Gardener’s Disease - Sporotrichosis; causes redness, swelling & open ulcers at puncture sites, cigar-shaped yeasts in pus

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Sporothrix schenkii

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granulomatous sinus lesion of the foot

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Pseudoallescheria boydii

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Lobomycosis – small and hard nodules appearing on the extremities

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Loboa loboi

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Rhinosporidiosis – formation of tumor-like polyp on the nose

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Rhinosporidium seeberi

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long chain (branching)

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Cladosporium carrionii

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keloid-like subcutaneous nodule involving extremities, tissue form: multiple budding cells

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Loboa loboi

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21
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✅ San Joaquin Valley Fever
✅ Desert Fever
✅ Mold: barrel-shaped arthroconidia

✅ Yeast: spherule with endospores

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Coccidioides immitis

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✅ Normal flora: skin, mucous membrane, GIT
✅ Produce yeast and hyphae in vivo
✅ Screening: Germ tube: forms at 35’C

✅Confirmatory: Chlamydospore: Corn Meal Tween 80 Agar

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C. albicans

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ochratoxin is produced by

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Aspergillus ochraceus

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Gliotoxin is produced by

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Aspergillus fumigatus

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26
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most common lab contaminant

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saprophytic fungi

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Side note:

✅ C. tropicalis = infection on immunocompromised host
✅ C. krusei = hematological disorders
✅ C. parapsilosis = endocarditis
✅ C. dubliniensis = double conidia

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Sickle or canoe shaped, multiseptate macroconidia

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Fusarium

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Resemble C. neoformans
Encapsulated
To differentiate: Rhodotorula = pink colonies

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Rhodotorula

30
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Also known as “Darling’s Disease”

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Histoplasmosis

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“Darling’s Disease” causative agents

  • inhalation of bird droppings
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  • Histoplasma capsulatum
  • Emmonsiella capsulata
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smallest yeast cell

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Histoplasma capsulatum

33
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Young culture usually have a predominance of smooth walled MACROCONIDIA that become TUBERCULATE with age

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Histoplasmosis

34
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INTRACELLULAR YEAST CELLS”

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Histoplasmosis

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AKA:

  • Desert fever
  • Valley fever
  • Desert Rheumatism
  • The Bumps
    ✅* San Joaquin Valley Fever
  • PosadasWerneckii
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Blastomycosis

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Chronic granulomatous disease of skin, mucous membrane, lymph nodes and internal
organs

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Blastomycosis

37
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“prickly state” on medium with blood

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Blastomycosis

38
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cigar shaped

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sporotrichosis

39
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Also called as Verrucous dermatitis - Warty cutaneous nodules which resembles ✅flouts of cauliflower

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CHROMOBLASTOMYCOSIS

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Called sclerotic bodies, medlar bodies,
✅copper-pennies bodies or muriform cells

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CHROMOBLASTOMYCOSIS

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Also caused by dematiaceous (pigmented) fungi

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PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS

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Club-shaped

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Trichophyton tonsurans

43
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“Birds on fence”

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T. rubrum

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Fungus ball (Aspergilloma)

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Aspergillosis

45
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Necrotizing disease of the lungs

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Granulomatous Aspergillosis

46
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most often seen in clinical laboratory

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Aspergillus fumigatus

47
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causes onychomycosis

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Aspergillus flavus

48
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major cause of otomycosis

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Aspergillus niger

49
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Common among diabetics, pregnant woman and those on birth control pills

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Mycotic Vulvovaginitis (Candidiasis)

50
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sausage appearance

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Systemic Candidiasis

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CONFIRMATORY TEST for candida

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GERM TUBE TEST

52
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Rhizoids originates between sporangiophores

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Absidia spp.

53
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Also called as Torulosis or European Blastomycosis

– bird droppings
(excreta of pigeons)

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Cryptococcosis

53
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sexual stage of Cryptococcus neoformans

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Filobasidiella

53
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Single unbranched tube-like phialides, ”conidia in clusters”
at the
✅ tip of phialides

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A. Acremonium spp.

54
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“brush-like conidiophores”

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B. Penicillium spp.

55
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“Sickle or Boat–shaped macroconidia”

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C. Fusarium spp.

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“Penicillium – like” structure

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C. Scopulariosis

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  • Chains of large brown conidia resembling ✅ “drumstick”
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A. Alternaria spp.

58
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“shield cells”

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B. Cladosporium spp.

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