Microbiology review powerpoint Flashcards
Subcutaneous fungi
Chromoblastomycosis, Sporotrichosis, Mycetoma (eumycotic), Phaeohyphomycosis
Opportunistic fungi
Aspergillosis, Candidosis, Cryptococcosis, Geotrichosis, Mucormycosis, Fusariosis, Trichosporonosis, and others
Systemic fungi
Aspergillosis, blastomycosis, candidosis, coccidioidomycosis, Adiaspiromycosis, Emmonsiosis, Histoplasmosis, Cryptocococcos, Geotrichosis, Paracoccidioidomycosis, Mucormycosis, Fusariosis, Trichosporonosis
Samples
CSF blank
Blood blank
eye scrapping blank
1.)CSF (should never be refrigerated),
2.)Blood (lysis centrifugation system to recover dimorphic fungi),
3.)Eye scrapping (media without cycloheximide),
Hair skin and nail scrapping blank
Vignial samples blank
time of urine not accepted
Other specimen types
Mycosel agar is satisfied for
Add Olive or olive oil for
1.)Hair, skin and nail scrapping (Mycosel agar is satisfactory for dermatophytes, add olive oil or olive oil saturated paper to recover M. furfur)
2.)Vaginal samples
3.)Urine: 24-hr urine is not accepted.
4.)Tissue, bone marrow and sterile body
Saprobic and pathogenic fungi agar
BHI, Potato flake agar (PFA), Sabouraud dextrose with BHI
Yeast and filamentous fungi agar
Chromogenic agar
Dermatophytes agar
Mycosel agar, BHI with antibiotics, Inhibitory mold agar (IMA), Dermatophyte test medium (DTM), Yeast-extract phosphate agar
BHI biphasic media
fungi from blood
Differential media
AA agar
Acetate ascospore)
Differential media
Christensen urea agar
Cryptococcus, Trichosporon
Cornmeal agar with tween 80 and trypan blue
Differential media
Chlamydospore from C. albicans
Cottonseed conversion agar
Differential media
Dimorphic fungi
Niger seed agar (Birdseed agar)
Differential media
Cryptococcus
Potato dextrose agar
Differential media
The pigment produced by T.rubrum
urea agar
Differential media
Urea positive fungi
Cryptococcus, T. mentagrophytes and Trichosporon. Urease negative: T. rubrum
Direct microscopic detection of fungi
KOH preparation
Saline wet mount: Fungal elements
Calcofluor white stain
India ink stain: Cryptococcus in CSF
Direct microscopic detection of fungi
blank cotton or blank blue what
Lactophenol cotton or aniline blue wet mount
Direct microscopic detection of fungi
Masson Fontana stain
Masson-Fontana stain: melanin pigment in fungal cell wall
Direct microscopic detection of fungi
Methenamine silver stain
Methanamine silver stain: Fungi in tissue
Direct microscopic detection of fungi
PAS stain
Periodic acid Schiff (PAS) stain
Yeast like fungi
Histoplasma capsulatum, Sporothrix spp., cryptococcus spp. M furfur, blasomyces spp, Paracoccidioides brasiliensis.