Mycology Virology Flashcards
Aerial hyphae of septate fungi
Conidiophore
Aerial hyphae of aseptate fungi
Sporangiophore
Sexual spores
“BAZO”
Basidospores
Ascospores
Zygospores
Oospores
Resting spores produced by rounding up and enlargement of terminal hyphal cells
Chlamydoconidia
Fragmentation of hyphae/mycelia
Arthroconidia
Zygomycetes
“RAM”
Rhizopus
Absidia
Mucor
Olive oil-loving fungi
Malassezia furfur
Tinea versicolor
Ptyriasis
Dermatophytes
“MET”
Microsporum
Epidermophyton
Trichophyton
Dermatophyte in man
Microsporum audounii
Favic chandelier
Trichiphyton shoenleinii
Trichophyton violaceum
Green-yellow fluorescence of ectothrix hair
M. canis
Apple-green fluorescence of ectothrix hair
M. audouinii
Large, club-shaped, smooth-walled macroconidia
Epidermophyton floccosum
Pencil-shaped macroconidia
Wine-red pigment
T. rubrum
Cigar-shaped macroconidia
Grape-like clusters microconidia
Spiral hyphae
T. mentagrophytes
“Balloon forms” microconidia
Requires thiamine
T. tonsurans
Rat-tail macroconidia
T. verrucosum
Flowerette conidia (mold)
Cigar-shaped (yeast)
Asteroid bodies (tissue)
Rose gardener’s disease
Sporothrix schenckii
North american blastomycosis
Blastomycoces dermatitidis
Gilchrist’s disease
South american blastomycoses
Paracoccidiodes brasiliensis
Single bud, broad base (yeast)
“Lollipop” (mold)
Blastomycoces dermatitidis
Multiple buds, ship/Mariner’s wheel, Mickey mouse (yeast)
Paracoccidiodes brasiliensis
Round to oval yeast, intracellular (yeast)
Tuberculated macroconidia (mold)
Darling’s disease
Histoplasma capsulatum
Mistaken as histoplasma
Amastigote form of Leishmania
Spherules with endospores (yeast)
Thick-walled barrel-shaped arthroconidia, empty disjunctor cells (mold)
Coccidiodes immitis
San Joaquin Valley Fever / Desert Fever
Coccidiodes immitis
Resembles myelin globules in sputum
Blastomyces
Resembles lymphocytes in CSF
Cryptococcus neoformans
Removed from SDA medium to grow C. neoformans
Cycloheximide
Test for systemic mycoses
Microscopic immunodiffusion
Exo antigen test
Cryptococcus neoformans identifying tests
Urease positive
Inositol positive
Nitrate negative
Stain in Aman’s medium
LPCB
Fungi color in acridine orange stain
Orange
Stains cellulose and chitin
Calcofluor white stain
Fungi under UV light: white to blue-green
Gram stain for fungi/yeast
Hucker’s modification (gram positive)
Best stain for fungi
Gomori methenamine silver (GMS)
Fungi culture are held for
21 days
SDA-CC
Mycosel or Mycobiotic
Sabouraud dextrose agar with Chloramphenicol and Cycloheximide