✅Mycology Flashcards
Agar used for fungal cultures
Saboraud’s agar
Light test fo dermatophytes
Green fluorescence in wood’s lamp
Appearance of malasezzia furfur
Spaghetti and meatball appearance
Treatment for tinea versicolor
Miconazole for malassezia
%KOH for fungal smear
10%
For dissolution of other cells
Systemic mycoses
4
Coccidiodes immitis
Histoplasma capsulatum
Blastomyces dermatitidis
Paracoccidioded brasiliensis
Fungal infection that occurs mostly in rose gardeners
Sporothrix schenkii
Treatment for sporotrichosis
Itraconazole
Potassium iodide
Illness caused by coccidiodes immitis
Valley fever
Skin bumps seen on someone with coccidioes immitis
Dessert bumps (erythema nodosum)
Systemic mycoses that is most common on filipinos living in latin america or southwestern USA
Coccidiodes immitis
Dessert systemic mycoses
Coccidiodes immitis
What happens to the microconidia of histoplasma capsulatum after it is inhaled
Mnemonic
It hides within macrophages and develops into budding yeasts
Histoplasma HIdes within macrophages
Fungal and parasitic infections that greatly mimic TB
Histoplasma capsulatum
Paragonimus westermanii
2 types of asexual spores of histoplasma.
Which one is the infective spore?
Tuberculate macroconidia
Microconidia - infective
Histoplasma grows in soil contaminated with
Starling droppings or bat guano
Mnemonic for blastomyces dermatitidis morphology
Blasto Buds Broadly
Round yeasts with a broad based bud
Most common cause of fungal pneumonia
Blastomyces dermatitidis
Usual antifungal for fungal meningitis
Fluconazole
Morphology of paracoccidiodes brasiliensis
Thick yeast with multiple buds in wheel configuration (mariner’s wheel)
Disease caused by paracoccidioded brasiliensis
Lutz-Splendore-de Almeida disease
Man hater fungus
Paracoccidodes brasiliensis
Morphology of candida skin infections
Satellite lesions
Treatment for oropharyngeal and esophagel candidiasis
Nystatin swish and swallow
Treatment for skin candida
Clotrimazole
Tx for disseminated candidiasis
Amphotericin B
Chemoprophylaxis for candidiasis
Fluconazole
Preparation and stain used for cryptococcus neoformans
India ink preparation
Nigrosine stain
Test for cryptococcal meningitis
Positive latex agglutination test (CALAS) - CSF
Cryptococcal meningitis is a chronic or acute disease? What is its more common presentation?
Chronic
Can just present as migraine
Acute angle mold -mnemonic
Aspergillus is acute
An immunocompromised person with asthmatic symptoms and expectoration of brown bronchial plugs presented at the ER. What should be part of your differentials?
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA)
Fungal infections in patients with burns and leukemia
Mucormycosis
R angle fungal branches
Rhizopus oryzae and mucor spp
Diagnosis of pneumocystis jiroveci is done by
Staining of Bronchoalveolar lavage by
Toluidine blue
Methenamine silver stain
DOC for pneumocystis jiroveci
TMP-SMX
Most common aids defining illness
Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
2 basic fungal forms
Yeast and molds
2 types of host response infungal infections
Granulomatous and pyogenic
Toxin and effect in amanita mushrooms
Toxin: amanitin and phylloidin
Effect: liver necrosis
Toxin and effect in aspergillus flavus
Aflatoxin
Liver cancer
3 groups under cutaneous mycoses
Dermatophytoses
Malassezia furfur
Sporothrix schenckii