Mycology

Question 1

Germ tubes at 37C?

Answer 1

Candida

Question 2

Allergic bronchopulmonary fungus?

Answer 2

Aspergillus

Question 3

45 degree hyphae?

Answer 3

Aspergillus

Question 4

90 degree hyphae?

Answer 4

Mucor and Rhizopus

Question 5

What fungus produces aflotoxins? What does this cause?

Answer 5

Aspergillus –> HCC

Question 6

What pt population is most susceptible to Aspergillus (besides immunocompromised)?

Answer 6

Farmers, because it grows in the soil

Question 7

Halos on India in? Where is it found?

Answer 7

Cryptococcus, found in pigeon droppings

Question 8

Ketoacidotic diabetic with fungal infection, think __.

Answer 8

Mucor or Rhizopus

Question 9

AIDS pt with fungal pneumonia?

Answer 9

Pneumocystis

Question 10

Cigar-shaped budding yeast?

Answer 10

Sporothrix schenckii

Question 11

Rose-gardner’s disease?

Answer 11

Sporothrix schenckii, ascends in lymphatics

Question 12

Fungus of MS river valley?

Answer 12

Histo –> bird/bat droppings

Question 13

Fungus of Eastern US?

Answer 13

Blasto

Question 14

Where in the body is Histo found?

Answer 14

In macrophages, Histo Hides inmacrophages

Question 15

Broad-based budding yeast?

Answer 15

Blasto

Question 16

Where is coccidioidmycosis found? What does it look like?

Answer 16

SW US, California

Spherules in tissue

Question 17

Captain’s wheel fungus? Where is it found?

Answer 17

Paracoccidioidmycosis

Latin America

Question 18

What causes tinea versicolor? What does tinea versicolor look like?

Answer 18

Malassezia furfur –> degradation of lipids –>damage melanocytes and causes areas of hypopigmentation (occurs in hot humid weather)

Question 19

Spaghetti and meatball fungus on microscopy?

Answer 19

Malassezia furfur