Mycology Flashcards

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Mycology Laboratory Methods

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Direct examination

  • Calcofluor white
    • fluorochrome
    • binds to cellulose and chitin in fungal cell wall
    • highlights fungi, prototheca, and cysts of acanthamoeba
  • India ink
  • Fontana Mason stains capsule of cryptococcus
  • GMS or PAS in tissue

Fungal culture

  • Brain heart infusion (BHI) agar
  • Sabouraud dextrose agar
  • Inhibitory mold agar
  • above agars incubated at 25-30 degrees for 4-6 weeks
  • Special media:
    • Cottonseed agar converts mold phase of blastomyces to yeast form
    • cornmeal or potato dextrose agar (latter shows pigment form Trichophyton rubrum)
    • cornmeal or rice agar with Tween 80
    • Sabouraud dextrose agar, Dixon medium, or Leeming-Notman medium overlaid with sterile olive oil
    • Trichophyton agars
    • Bird seed (niger seed) agar
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Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA)

  • principle
  • purpose
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  • Principle
    • Acid pH and high dextrose concentration inhibits bacterial growth but permits growth of fungi; some also contain abx
  • Purpose
    • many fungi
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Inhibitory mold agar (IMA)

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  • Principle
    • chloramphenicol and sometimes gentamicin or ciprofloxacin to suppress bacteria
  • Purpose
    • selective isolation of fungi from specimens that may contain commensal bacterial flora
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Brain heart infusion agar (BHI)

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  • Principle
    • brain/meat infusion, peptone and dextrose
    • Chloramphenicol and gentamicin can be added
  • Principle
    • nonselective formulation is general purpose medium used for bacteria, yeasts, and molds
    • when containing abx, it prevents commensal bacterial from growing
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Cyclohexamide containing media

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  • Principle
    • inhibits growth of many saprophytic fungi, while permitting growth of most pathogenic fungi
    • chloramphenicol and gentamicin can be added
  • Purpose
    • Selective isolation of slow growing pathogenic fungi that may be overgrown by rapidly growing saprophytic fungi
    • cycloheximide also inhibits growth of C neoformans, Candida, Aspergillus, and other zygomycetes
    • targets dermatophytes or thermally dimorphic fungi
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Olive oil overlay on SDA, Dixon medium, or leeming-notman medium

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isolate malassezia

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Trichophyton agars

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differentiate between species of trichophyton

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Bird seed agar

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demonstrate pheno oxidase activity of cryptococcus neoformans

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Mold morphology

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  • Hyaline septate molds
    • surface of colonies may be white or colored
    • reverse side of plate is usually light
    • hyphae with frequent septations
  • Dematiaceous molds: septate molds that make melanin
    • surface and reverse side of plate are both dark
  • Zygomycetes: aseptate or pauciseptate
    • lid lifters
    • may be pigmented, but do not make melanin (reverse side is light)
  • Dimorphic fungi: septate hyphae at 25-30 degrees; yeast when reincubated at 37 degrees
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Yeast gross morphology and classification

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  • creamy or mucoid (cryptococcus) colonies; molds make fuzzy colonies
  • candida albicans form “feet” starlike projections
  • further classified by MALDI or by special yeast agar
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Yeasts with blastoconidia only

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Cryptococcus

Candida glabrata

Rhodotorula

Malassezia

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Yeasts with blastoconidia and pseudohyphae

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Candida (except glabrata)

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Yeast with arthroconidia

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Trichosporon

Geotrichum

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Hyaline molds

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Hyphae and other structures are nonmelanized

  1. aspergillus
  2. penicillium
  3. fusarium
  4. dermatophytes
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Dematiaceous molds

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Alternaria

P boydii/S boydii

Scedosporium prolificans

Curvularia

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Mold with pauciseptate hyphae

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Zygomycetes (rhizopus, mucor, cunninghamella, rhizomucor)

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Thermally dimorphic fungi

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Histoplasma

Blastomyces

Coccidioides

paracoccidioides

sporothrix

penicillium marnefii

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Histoplasma capsulatum

  • diagnosis
  • culture
  • geographic distribution
  • transmission
  • appearance in tissue
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Diagnosis and culture

  • 2-4 um ovoid yeast with narrow based budding
  • in histiocytes
  • slow growing cottony white mold
  • septated hyaline hyphae with intermittent microconidia and large spiny macroconidia
  • undergo yeast conversion at 37 degrees

Ohio and Missippi river valleys, Latin America, and Spain

Primary infection is pulmonary, can be disseminated (reticuloendothelial); sclerosing mediastinitus

Transmitted via droppings from chickens or bats

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Histoplasma duboisii

  • geography
  • disease
  • culture
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  • Africa
  • local or disseminated (skin, soft tissue, bone)
  • Colony and microscopic morphology indistinguishable from var capsulatum
  • often intraceullar within giant cells
  • round to oval, thick walled yeast, narrow based budding (unlike B dermatitidis which is a similar size)
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Blastomyces dermatitidis

  • diagnosis
  • culture
  • disease
  • similar morphology to ___
  • geographic distribution
  • transmission
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  • uniform, large yeasts (8-15 um) with broad based budding
  • thick wall and double contoured yeast
  • Slow growing mold with cottony white surface that darkens to tan with age at 25-30 degrees
  • septate hyaline hyphae with short, unbranched conidiophores producing single, pyriform to round, smooth conidia (lollipops)
  • Morphology similar to nondimorphic mold Chrysosporium
  • Conversion to yeast at 37 degrees
  • Mississipppi and Ohio River valleys; also in southeastern US and around Great Lakes
  • soil, inhaled
  • pulmonary primary infection
  • disseminated infection affects skin, mucous membranes, and bone
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Coccidioides immitis/posadasii

  • morphology
  • resemble ___
  • yeast conversion?
  • geographic distribution
  • transmission
  • disease
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  • large spherules with thick walls that contain hundreds of endospores
  • 25-30 degrees grows as moist gray colonies that become white and cottony as they mature
  • thin, hyaline septate hyphae and arthroconidia; mature arthroconidia are barrel shaped, and alternate with empty cells
  • Immature arthroconidia resemble Malbranchea
  • difficult yeast conversion
  • San Joaquin Valley California (C posadasii in southwest)
  • soil inhaled
  • Can be easily inhaled by lab personel (be careful!)
  • primary infection is pulmonary
  • disseminated infection affects skin and bone and joints
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paracoccidioides brasiliensis

  • morphology
  • gross
  • yeast conversion
  • geographic distribution
  • disease
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  • round, large yeast with circumferential budding
  • 25-30 degrees: slow growing mold with a white to tan surface
  • hyaline septate hyphae with terminal and intercalary chlamydospores and infrequent pear shaped microconidia arranged along hyphae
  • converts to yeast at 37 degrees
  • Central and South American rain forest
  • primary infection is pulmonary
  • Can disseminate: skin, mucosa, reticuloendothelial
  • Behaves like blastomyces
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Sporothrix schenkii

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  • geographic distribution
  • transmission
  • disease
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  • 4-6 um, cigar shaped yeast with narrow based budding
  • 25-30 degrees: grows rapidly into moist, white to pale orange colonies that turn brown with age
  • delicate hyaline septate hyphae producing conidiophores topped by clusters of microconidia (rosettes or daisies)
  • converts to yeast at 37 degrees (cigars with narrow based buds)
  • worldwide distribution
  • acquired by penetrating injury from contaminated plant (rose garden)
  • Alcoholics known to become infected through inhalation
  • lymphocutaneous infection with nodular, ulcerative lesions following lymphatics
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Penicillium marneffei

  • appearance of clinical sample
  • culture
  • disease; geographic distribution
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  • 3-5 um yeast divide by fission in clinical sample
  • Culture
    • 25-30 degrees: rapidly growing tan colonies initially powdery or velvety on the surface, and become colored with maturity (blue/green centrally)
    • red pigment diffuses into agar around colonies
    • hyaline septate hyphae with conidiophores and metulae producing brushlike clusters of phialides
    • converts to yeast at 37 degrees (3-5 um), oval
    • penicilliosis: endemic in southeast Asia
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Aspergillus species - clinical specimens appearance - culture appearance
* clinical * hyaline, **septate hyphae** with **45 degree** branching * **fruiting heads** in air filled tissue pockets * Culture: * rapidly growing; identified by colony morphology and microscopic appearance of **swollen vesicle** at ends of conidiophores
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Culture appearance of aspergillus fumigatus
* blue green with white apron and light reverse * conidiophores terminate in a swollen vesicle having a single row of phialides that cover only the top **2/3 of the vesicle** * each phialide gives rise to chain of small conidia
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Culture appearance of aspergillus flavus
* yellow green to **olive with light** reverse; lateral striations * **circumferential phialides** * some strains **uniseriate** (single row of phialides) or **biseriate**
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Aspergillus niger morphology
* Dark brown to black colonies with light reverse * vesicles with 2 rows of phialides (biseriate) covering the entire vesicle * phialides produce chains of rough, round, dark conidia
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Aspergillus terreus morphology
* colonies are **cinnamon brown** on the surface with a **yellow or orange** reverse * phialides cover top **2/3 of vesicle** , but unlike fumigatus are **biseriate** and have **longer chains of conidia**
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Diagnosis of aspergillus
* Culture * ELISA for serum marker **galactomannan** and/or **1-3-beta-D-glucan**
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Aspergillosis - transmission - clinical disease - clinical features of A flavus, A niger, and A terreus
* Ubiquitous in **soil** and on **decaying vegetables** * **Respiratory tract** affected * Immunocompetent host will have cavitary lung disease: **aspergilloma** (fungus ball); most commonly caused by **A fumigatus** * Atopic host: allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (**ABPA**) or allergic sinonasal aspergillosis (**allergic fungal sinusitis**) * Immunosuppressed host: **invasive bronchopulmonary aspergillosis** (IBPA) or **invasive fungal sinusitis**, with angioinvasive growth (Aspergillus species and zygomycetes have capacity to invade vessel walls) * **A flavus** produces aflatoxins in food, carcinogens for HCC * **A niger** pulmonary infection associated with oxalosis (calcium oxalate tissue deposition); most common aspergillus associated with otitis externa * **A terreus** resistant to amphotericin B
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Fusarium infections
similar to aspergillus + fungal keratitis and opportunistic infection in burn wounds
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Pseudallescheria boydii/Scedosporium boydii disease - transmission - diseases - treatment
* most common cause of eumycotic mycetoma after penetrating trauma * fungal keratitis * pneumonia after near drowning accidents * P boydii/S boydii resistant to amphotericin B
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Conidia arranged in clusters
**Fusarium** * canoe shaped * multicellular macroconidia with 3-6 cells each **Acremonium** * long, threadlike, unbranched phialides bearing clusters of single celled microconidia **Gliocladium** * branching conidiophores bearing flask shaped phialides, resembling Penicillium; microconidia cluster in a ball (golfball at end of finger tip)
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Conidia arising in chains
**Penicillium** * brushlike arrangement of flask shaped phialides that give rise to unbranching chains of microconidia **Paecilomyces** * Branching conidiophores with elongated, flask shaped phialides arranged in pairs or brushlike groups * long chains of oval or spindle shaped microconidia bend away from the phialides * colonies are yellowish brown or pinkish mauve, white, or yellow-green, but are never bright green or blue-green **Scopulariopsis** * single or branched conidiophores that give rise to annellides (similar to phialides)
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Conidia arranged singly
**Chrysosporium** * single, cutoff microconidia directly on hyphae or on the tips of simple conidiophores * Looks like **blastomyces** **Sepedonium** * singly borne, hyaline conidia at the ends of branched or unbranched conidiophores * conidia are large, thick walled and echinulate (spiny), resembling macroconidia of mold form of **H capsulatum** **Beuveria** * single, small, round or oval microconidia emerging from each inflection point in a zigzagging (geniculate) flask shaped conidiophore
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Dermatophytes are grown on what medium?
cycloheximide
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Diagnosis of dermatophytes
1. **KOH prep or calcofluor white prep of skin scrapings** 2. Species ID by **colony morphology** (trichophyton rubrum produce red pigment on reverse) 3. Species ID by **microscopic examination of conidia** * **Trichophyton rubrum**: * Tear shaped microconidia along hyphae: "birds on a telephone wire" * **Trichophyton mentagrophytes**: * microconidia are arranged in clusters * spiral hyphae * cigar shaped macroconidia * can penetrate hair shafts, unlike T rubrum * **Trichophyton tonsurans**: microconidia have marked variability in size and shape; scalp ringworm * **Microsporum canis**: * Macroconidia are spindle shaped and rough (echinulate) and pointed * Macroconidia contain \> 6 cells separated by transverse septae * **Microsporum gypseum**: * Macroconidia are oval with **rounded ends unlike M canis** and have transverse septae * Macroconidia contain less than 6 cells * Microconidia also present * **Epidermophyton floccosum**: * Macroconidia are smooth, **club shaped** found singly or in clusters * Macroconidia contains **2-6 cells**, separated by **transverse septae** * No microconidia
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Microsporum canis
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Trichophyton mentagrophytes
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trichophyton tonsurans
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microsporum gypseum
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epidermophyton floccosum
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Why are dematiaceous molds pigmented on surface and reverse of plate?
both hyphae and conidia are melanized (however, some only melanize one or the other)
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Fast growing dematiaceous molds with conidia with transverse septae
**Bipolaris** oval **dark conidia** (**3-5** septations) arising from **bent** conidiophores; **germ tubes at both ends** **Dreschslera** similar to bipolaris but lacks bipolar germ tubes in saline incubation; instead **germ tubes are along sides** of the conidia **Excerohilum** resembles bipolaris but its **conidia are longer** and thinner and have **5-12 septations** **Helminthosporum** bottle brushlike microscopic appearance, with side by side conidia arranged in whorls along conidiophores **Curvularia** Transverely septated conidia curve distinctly when mature
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Dematiaceous molds- fast growers: conidia with transverse and longitudinal septae
**Alternaria** chains of muriform (brick wall) conidia that have alternating blunt and pointed ends **Ulocladium** oval muriform conidia borne singly on bent conidiophores **Stemphilium** Resembles ulocladium but borne upon straight condiophores
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bipolaris
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drechslera
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excerohilum
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Helminthosporium
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Curvularia
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Alternaria
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ulocladium
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Stemphilium
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Slow growing dematiaceous molds - early growth is yeast like becoming mold like with age - always look mold like
**Early yeast like, mold like later** * exophiala * wangiella * hortaea **Always mold like** * pseudoallescheria boydii/scedosporium boydii complex * scedosporium prolificans
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Pseudallescheria boydii/ scedosporium boydii - colonies - sexual versus asexual forms - treatment
* **light gray or brown surface**, owing to melanization of its oval, truncated microconidia * **hyphae are hyaline** (nonmelanized) creating a light reverse * produces large dark **cleistothecia** in sexual state * asexual form lacks cleistothecia * alternative asexual form (**graphium**) has mats of long conidiophores stuck together side by side, resembling the bristles of a broom * resistant to **amphotericin B**, but susceptible to **triazoles**
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Scedosporium prolificans - colonies - differences from P boydii - micro - treatment
* **gray or black** surface and reverse (dematiaceous) * unlike P boydii its growth is **inhibited by cycloheximide** and it has **no sexual state** * **microconidia** are oval and truncated, forming clusters at the end of annellides (conidiogenous cells) * **annellides** have swollen bases and thin necks * resistant to amphotericin B, azoles and echinocandins (so **antifungal therapy is ineffective**)
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Clinical features of dematiaceous molds
1. **Chromoblastomycosis** * **subcutaneous** mycosis associated with prominent **pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia** * tissue shows **pigmented hyphae** and **sclerotic (muriform) bodies** * Organisms: * **fonsecaea pedroi** * **phialophora verrucosa** * **cladophialophora carrionii** * **tropical and subtropical** * gain entrance through **puncture wounds**, lower extremities 2. **Mycetoma** (Madura foot or maduromycosis) * **subcutaneous** infection with draining **sinus tracts** * can be caused by **bacteria** (actinomycotic mycetoma) or **molds** (eumycotic mycetoma) * subcutaneous nodule contains **granules** (mold with a proteinaceous matrix) * usually from **puncture** wound * Organisms: * **Madurella** * **exophiala** * **wangiella** * **P boydii/S boydii** * actinomycotic: aerobic actinomycetes (**nocardia**) 3. **Phaeohyphomycosis**: do not fit into the above categories
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Zygomycetes - diagnosis in clinical specimens - culture (growth rate, list species) - define zygophore
* clinical specimens have broad, hyphae with few septations and few branches; nondichotomous * Rapid growth in culture * Zygophore is a diploid reproductive stage in the life cycle; defining zygomycetes * Species * Rhizopus * Mucor * Lichtheimia (formerly Absidia) * Cunninghamella
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Characteristics of rhizopus organisms
* **rhizoids** and **unbranched sporangiophores** that arise directly from rhizoids * sporangia are spherical and full of spores that collapse when mature (like a collapsed umbrella) * sporangiophores **lack an apophysis**
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Mucor species
* do not produce rhizoids * sporangiophores are branched or unbranched, but lack apophysis * sporangia are spherical and fall apart, releasing spores
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Lichtheimia species
* has rhizoids but sporangiophores arise at points between rhizoids rather than over rhizoids * sporangiophores are branched and form a conical **apophysis** at the top
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Cunninghamella species
* **branched sporangiophores** topped by large **vesicles** * vesicles covered by spines (**denticles**), which supports a **single spore** contained within a round **sporaniolum**
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Clinical features of zygomycetes
* several forms of invasive infection * rhinocerebral * pulmonary * GI * cutaneous * hosts often immunocompromised * risk factors * DM (esp ketoacidosis) * stem cell or solid organ transplant * neutropenia * corticosteroid therapy * severe burns * invade vessel walls (like aspergillus)
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cunninghamella
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Chromagar
agar plates that are selective for yeast allowing for some differentiation between some Candida species on basis of color
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Germ tube test
* yeast incubated in **serum at 37 degrees** for up to **3 hours** * **wet mount** is made and examined for germ tubes (**hyphae with no constriction at the juncture with the yeast cell**) * **C albicans** and **dubliniensis** make true hyphae without constriction (germ tubes) (most candida species do not make germ tubes)
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Rapid treholase assimilation
Presumptively identify **C glabrata** * **yeast** isolate is inoculated into broth containing **treholase** and a **pH indicator** * after **3 hour** incubation at **42** degrees **fermentation** of the substrate causes a **color change**
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Urease test, fungi
Presumptively identify **Cryptococcus** * urease activity distinquishes **ascomycetous** yeasts (no urease activity) from **basidiomycetous** yeasts (urease activity) * **urease disks** detect urease activity by a color change within a few hours; somewhat longer testing needed for **urea agar slants** * common basidiomycetous yeasts: **rhodotorula and trichosporon**
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Phenol oxidase test, fungi
Presumptive identification of **C neoformans** * C neoformans **oxidizes diphenolic compounds** such as **caffeic acid**, **dopamine**, and **dopa** to produce darkly pigmented **melanin** or melanin precursors * culture yeast on **bird seed agar** (which has caffeic acid)...if brown colonies grow, it is C neoformans * Rapid method involves use of **caffeic acid** **disks** inoculated with yeast isolate and can demonstrate brown pigment production within a few hours
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Definitive identification of yeasts
1. biochemical tests 2. MALDI-TOF 3. demonstration of specific morphology with specialized media 4. rice or cornmeal agar supplemented with Tween 80 will induce formation of blastoconidia, pseudohyphae, true hyphae, arthroconidia or chlamydospores
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C albicans - clinical significance - morphology (micro and colonies) - tests - treatment
* most common candida species isolated from humans * **3-5 um budding yeast** with **pseudohyphae** and occasional true hyphae * have **feet** on agar (not seen in non-albicans species) * when cultured on **cornmeal or rice** agar with Tween it forms **pseudohyphae** with clusters of **blastoconidia** at septations, as well as **terminal** **chlamydospores** * positive **germ tube test** * forms **green colonies** on chromogenic agar * most susceptible to azoles, echinocandins, and amphotericin B
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C glabrata - clinical specimens - morphology - growth rate - culture characterstics - other tests - treatment
* isolated from **blood** and **urine** * **2-4 um** **budding yeast (blastoconidia)**, without pseudohyphae * grow more **slowly** than other candida species * yeast morphology medium does not induce structures other than budding yeast * positive **trehalose** test * reduced susceptibilty to **azoles** but most are susceptible to echinocandins and amphotericin B
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Cryptococcus species - human pathogens - geographic distribution - size - transmission - morphology - tests
* **C neoformans** and **C gatii** are the most common pathogens in the US and tropical zones/northwest, respectively * Inhalation of soil * C neoformans: soil containing **bird excreta** (pigeon, chicken) * C gatti: **eucalyptus trees** * **3-15 um** narrow budding yeast * **encapsulated** * cell walls contain **melanin** * Colonies often **mucoid** * **Never forms other structures** like pseudohyphae * **Phenol oxidase test** * **Cryptococcal capsular polysaccharide antigen** can be detected in either serum or body fluids (CSF)
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Pneumocystis jiroveci - culture - diagnosis - diseases - serum markers - stains
* **cannot culture in vitro** * diagnosis depends on direct examination of clinical specimen * disease in HIV with **CD4 \< 200 cells/ml** * disease also occurs in **SCID, chemo** (esp lymphoma), **transplanted or collagen vascular disease** patients * **LDH** high * serology not helpful * **Respiratory sample: exudate** * **Giemsa, PAS, GMS stain orgs** * **Immunofluorescent** staining wtih antibodies also work
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Colony colors: Coccidioides Blastomycosis Paracoccidioides Sporothrix Penicillium marnefii A flavus A fumigatus A terreus Trichophyton rubrum
* Coccidioides: moist gray turns cottony white * Blastomycosis: Cottony white turns tan * Paracoccidioides: white-tan * Sporothrix: pale orange turns brown * Penicillium marnefii: powdery tan turns blue/green centrally with surrounding red * A flavus: yellow-green * A fumigatus: dark blue-green with white apron * A terreus: cinnamon brown with yellow-orange reverse * Trichophyton rubrum: red reverse
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Ulocladium | (usually a contaminant)
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Scedosporium prolificans - invasive infection with arthritis or osteomyelitis - growth inhibited by cyclohexamide
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Bipolaris - fast growing dematiaceous mold - allergic sinusitis - brain lesions in IC
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Exserohilum - fast growing dematiaceous mold - phaeohyphomycosis in nasal sinuses, skin, subcutis, cornea
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Helminthosporium - fast growing dematiceous mold - contaminant
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Curvularia - fast growing dematiaceous mold - cornea and sinus opportunistic infection - mycetoma - phaeohyphomycosis
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Alternaria - fast growing dematiaceous mold - usually a contaminant
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Stemphylium - contaminant
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Chrysosporium causes adiaspiromycosis, a granulomatous infection with large thick-walled spherules
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Sepedonium - contaminant - differs from H capsulatum by 1. not forming yeast at 37 degrees 2. not forming microconidia
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Beauveria bassiana - contaminant
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Fusarium
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Gliocladium - contaminant
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Acremonium - white grain mycetoma
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Penicillium - contaminant - corneal, cutaneous, external ear, respiratory, and UTIs, and endocarditis with prosthesis
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Paecilomyces
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Scopulariopsis
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Microsporum canis - scalp and skin infections, occasionally nails - kids acquire infection from dogs and cats
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Microsporum gypseum - scalp and skin
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Trichophyton rubrum - skin and nails and only rarely hair - one of the more common causes of onychomycosis - most frequently isolated dermatophyte infecting humans
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Trichophyton mentagrophytes - invades all parts of body surface - athlete's foot
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Trichophyton tonsurans - scalp ringworm - skin and nails infected also
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Epidermophyton floccosum - skin and nail infection (not hair)
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Penicillium marneffei PDA Penicillium marneffei SDA