Mycology Flashcards
Yeast
Unicellular, round, asex reproduce with budding.
Moist colonies, pseudohyphae with constrictions
Mold
Filamentous, tubular branching hyphae with septations
Form fuzzy, velvety or smooth colonies
Mycelium
Large intertwined mass hyphae without reproductive capacity. Diff types: spiral, pectinate, nodular, racquet, favic
Tinea nigra
Hortaea werneckii
Darker peripheral border
Black piedra
PIedra hortae, hard/firm, black nits–adhere to hair
White piedra
Trichosporon beigelii (Ovoides, inkin, asahii, cutaneum), soft, non firm, white, less adherent
Most common tinea capitis in US
T. tonsurans (2nd–T. canis)
Fluorescent Ectothrix
Cats and Dogs Fight and Growl Sometimes
M. canis, audouinii, distrotium, ferrugineum, (T. gypseum, schoenleinii)
Endothrix
Black dot ringworm: Ringo Gave Yoko Two Squeaky Violins
T. rubrum, gourvilli, yaounde, tonsurans, Soudanense, violaceum
Nonflourescent Ectothrix
My Right Nail Gave Me Warts
T. mentag, rubrum, M. nanuum, T. gypseum, T. megninii, verrucosum
Favus/Scutula
T. schoenleinii, violaceum, gypseum
Kerion
M. canis, T. tonsurans, T verrucosum, T. mentag
Treat with pred and anti fungal
Tinea corporis
#1--T. rubrum #2-- T. mentag then canis and tonsurans/gypseum
Majocchi’s granuloma
1-T. rubrum
or T. mentag
–Needs bx and oral anti fungal. Dermatophyte in hair follicle
Tinea barbae–superficial
T. violaceum or T. rubrum
All barbaes need oral anti fungal
Tinea barbae-abscess
M. canis
Tinea barbae–verrucous granulomatosis
E. floccosum
Tinea barbae=-Deep, inflammatory
T. mentag or T verrucosum
T. manuum
T. rubrum, T. mentag, E. floccosum
T. pedis
Most are T. rub rum
Bullous T. pedis
T. mentag
White superficial onychomycosis
T. mentagrophytes (HIV T. rub), also Aspergillus, Acremonium, fusarium, scopulariopsis. Chalky white.
Proximal white sublingual onychomycosis
T. rubrum, near lunula. Marker HIV
Distal lateral sunungual onychomycosis
T. rubrum
Epidermophyton
No Microconidia
Macrocon: club shaped, smooth. Thin and thick walls, 2-6 cells
No hair involve
Trichophyton
Microcon diagnostic
Macrocon: not diagnostic. pencil shaped, smooth
Nonfluoresc ecto and endo invasion
Microsporum
Macro:diagnostic rough walled, barrel shaped
Fluor and non fluor ectothrix invasion
Epidermophyton floccosum
T. cruris and T. pedis; occ corporis/onycho
Microsporum audouinii
T. corporis and capitis
Mouse fur colony
Polished rice –
Microsporum canis
Most common cause T. capitis worldwide
White, fur like with yellow periphery
Polished rice +
Microsporum ferrugineum
T. capitis and corporis
Smooth, waxy, rust colored, heaped
Microsporum gallinae
Rare cause tinea capitis, usually chicken favus
Fluffy to felt-like what colony becoming pink
M. gypseum
Tinea corporis
Flat, powdery, buff to cinnamon with white periphery
Polished rice +
M. nanum
Tinea capitis
Fluffy white, powdery baige
Pig snout macroconidia
In Vitro Hair Perforation
+wedge shaped area in hair shaft–T mentag
no change in hair shaft–T rub rum, ferrug
Pigmentation Production on cornmeal agar with dextrose
+ T rubrum
-T mentag
Urease Test
+red pink–T mentag
-amber T rubrum, ferruge, soudanese