Mycology

Question 1

Most widely used culture medium

Answer 1

SABORAUD’s AGAR

Question 2

Used to dissolve tissue material, leaving the alkali resistant fungi intact

Answer 2

10% KOH

Question 3

Four approaches to the laboratory diagnosis of fungal diseases

Answer 3

Direct microscopy

Culture

DNA probe test

Serologic test

Question 4

Dermatophytes

Answer 4

Trichophyton

Microsporum

Epidermophyton

Question 5

Derivative of glucose

Composed of N-acetylglucosamine

Answer 5

CHITIN

Question 6

Hypopigmented spots on the chest and back

Answer 6

MALASEZZIA FURFUR

Question 7

Spaghetti and meatballs

Answer 7

Malasezzia furfur

Question 8

Treatment for Pityriasis

Answer 8

Salicylic acid

Question 9

Athletes’s foot

Answer 9

Tinea pedia

Question 10

Jock itch

Answer 10

Tinea cruris

Question 11

Ringworm (body)

Answer 11

Tinea corporis

Question 12

Ringworm (head)

Answer 12

Tinea capitis

Question 13

Rose gardener’s disease

Answer 13

SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII

Question 14

Cigar shaped budding yeast

Answer 14

SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII

Question 15

Most common cause of outbreaks of tinea capitis in children

Answer 15

Trichophyton tonsurans

Question 16

Main cause of endothrix

Answer 16

Trichophyton tonsurans

Question 17

Dermatophytes that affects external surface or skin of hair

Answer 17

Ectothrix

Question 18

Invaded the hair shaft or inside the hair

Answer 18

Endothrix

Question 19

Causes favus

Answer 19

Trichophyton schoenlenii