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✅Mycology Flashcards

1
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Agar used for fungal cultures

A

Saboraud’s agar

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2
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Light test fo dermatophytes

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Green fluorescence in wood’s lamp

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3
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Appearance of malasezzia furfur

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Spaghetti and meatball appearance

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4
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Treatment for tinea versicolor

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Miconazole for malassezia

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5
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%KOH for fungal smear

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10%

For dissolution of other cells

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6
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Systemic mycoses

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4

Coccidiodes immitis
Histoplasma capsulatum
Blastomyces dermatitidis
Paracoccidioded brasiliensis

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7
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Fungal infection that occurs mostly in rose gardeners

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Sporothrix schenkii

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8
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Treatment for sporotrichosis

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Itraconazole

Potassium iodide

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9
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Illness caused by coccidiodes immitis

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Valley fever

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10
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Skin bumps seen on someone with coccidioes immitis

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Dessert bumps (erythema nodosum)

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11
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Systemic mycoses that is most common on filipinos living in latin america or southwestern USA

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Coccidiodes immitis

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12
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Dessert systemic mycoses

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Coccidiodes immitis

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13
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What happens to the microconidia of histoplasma capsulatum after it is inhaled

Mnemonic

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It hides within macrophages and develops into budding yeasts

Histoplasma HIdes within macrophages

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14
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Fungal and parasitic infections that greatly mimic TB

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Histoplasma capsulatum

Paragonimus westermanii

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15
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2 types of asexual spores of histoplasma.

Which one is the infective spore?

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Tuberculate macroconidia

Microconidia - infective

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16
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Histoplasma grows in soil contaminated with

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Starling droppings or bat guano

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17
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Mnemonic for blastomyces dermatitidis morphology

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Blasto Buds Broadly

Round yeasts with a broad based bud

18
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Most common cause of fungal pneumonia

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Blastomyces dermatitidis

19
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Usual antifungal for fungal meningitis

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Fluconazole

20
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Morphology of paracoccidiodes brasiliensis

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Thick yeast with multiple buds in wheel configuration (mariner’s wheel)

21
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Disease caused by paracoccidioded brasiliensis

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Lutz-Splendore-de Almeida disease

22
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Man hater fungus

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Paracoccidodes brasiliensis

23
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Morphology of candida skin infections

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Satellite lesions

24
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Treatment for oropharyngeal and esophagel candidiasis

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Nystatin swish and swallow

25
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Treatment for skin candida

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Clotrimazole

26
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Tx for disseminated candidiasis

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Amphotericin B

27
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Chemoprophylaxis for candidiasis

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Fluconazole

28
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Preparation and stain used for cryptococcus neoformans

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India ink preparation

Nigrosine stain

29
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Test for cryptococcal meningitis

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Positive latex agglutination test (CALAS) - CSF

30
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Cryptococcal meningitis is a chronic or acute disease? What is its more common presentation?

A

Chronic

Can just present as migraine

31
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Acute angle mold -mnemonic

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Aspergillus is acute

32
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An immunocompromised person with asthmatic symptoms and expectoration of brown bronchial plugs presented at the ER. What should be part of your differentials?

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Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA)

33
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Fungal infections in patients with burns and leukemia

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Mucormycosis

34
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R angle fungal branches

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Rhizopus oryzae and mucor spp

35
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Diagnosis of pneumocystis jiroveci is done by

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Staining of Bronchoalveolar lavage by

Toluidine blue
Methenamine silver stain

36
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DOC for pneumocystis jiroveci

37
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Most common aids defining illness

A

Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia

38
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2 basic fungal forms

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Yeast and molds

39
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2 types of host response infungal infections

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Granulomatous and pyogenic

40
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Toxin and effect in amanita mushrooms

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Toxin: amanitin and phylloidin

Effect: liver necrosis

41
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Toxin and effect in aspergillus flavus

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Aflatoxin

Liver cancer

42
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3 groups under cutaneous mycoses

A

Dermatophytoses
Malassezia furfur
Sporothrix schenckii

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