Mycology Virology

Question 1

Aerial hyphae of septate fungi

Answer 1

Conidiophore

Question 2

Aerial hyphae of aseptate fungi

Answer 2

Sporangiophore

Question 3

Sexual spores

Answer 3

“BAZO”
Basidospores
Ascospores
Zygospores
Oospores

Question 4

Resting spores produced by rounding up and enlargement of terminal hyphal cells

Answer 4

Chlamydoconidia

Question 5

Fragmentation of hyphae/mycelia

Answer 5

Arthroconidia

Question 6

Zygomycetes

Answer 6

“RAM”
Rhizopus
Absidia
Mucor

Question 7

Olive oil-loving fungi

Answer 7

Malassezia furfur
Tinea versicolor
Ptyriasis

Question 8

Dermatophytes

Answer 8

“MET”
Microsporum
Epidermophyton
Trichophyton

Question 9

Dermatophyte in man

Answer 9

Microsporum audounii

Question 10

Favic chandelier

Answer 10

Trichiphyton shoenleinii
Trichophyton violaceum

Question 11

Green-yellow fluorescence of ectothrix hair

Answer 11

M. canis

Question 12

Apple-green fluorescence of ectothrix hair

Answer 12

M. audouinii

Question 13

Large, club-shaped, smooth-walled macroconidia

Answer 13

Epidermophyton floccosum

Question 14

Pencil-shaped macroconidia
Wine-red pigment

Answer 14

T. rubrum

Question 15

Cigar-shaped macroconidia
Grape-like clusters microconidia
Spiral hyphae

Answer 15

T. mentagrophytes

Question 16

“Balloon forms” microconidia
Requires thiamine

Answer 16

T. tonsurans

Question 17

Rat-tail macroconidia

Answer 17

T. verrucosum

Question 18

Flowerette conidia (mold)
Cigar-shaped (yeast)
Asteroid bodies (tissue)

Rose gardener’s disease

Answer 18

Sporothrix schenckii

Question 19

North american blastomycosis

Answer 19

Blastomycoces dermatitidis

Gilchrist’s disease

Question 20

South american blastomycoses

Answer 20

Paracoccidiodes brasiliensis

Question 21

Single bud, broad base (yeast)
“Lollipop” (mold)

Answer 21

Blastomycoces dermatitidis

Question 22

Multiple buds, ship/Mariner’s wheel, Mickey mouse (yeast)

Answer 22

Paracoccidiodes brasiliensis

Question 23

Round to oval yeast, intracellular (yeast)
Tuberculated macroconidia (mold)
Darling’s disease

Answer 23

Histoplasma capsulatum

Question 24

Mistaken as histoplasma

Answer 24

Amastigote form of Leishmania

Question 25

Spherules with endospores (yeast) Thick-walled barrel-shaped arthroconidia, empty disjunctor cells (mold)

Answer 25

Coccidiodes immitis

Question 26

San Joaquin Valley Fever / Desert Fever

Answer 26

Coccidiodes immitis

Question 27

Resembles myelin globules in sputum

Answer 27

Blastomyces

Question 27

Resembles lymphocytes in CSF

Answer 27

Cryptococcus neoformans

Question 28

Removed from SDA medium to grow C. neoformans

Answer 28

Cycloheximide

Question 28

Test for systemic mycoses Microscopic immunodiffusion

Answer 28

Exo antigen test

Question 28

Cryptococcus neoformans identifying tests

Answer 28

Urease positive Inositol positive Nitrate negative

Question 29

Stain in Aman's medium

Answer 29

LPCB

Question 30

Fungi color in acridine orange stain

Answer 30

Orange

Question 31

Stains cellulose and chitin

Answer 31

Calcofluor white stain Fungi under UV light: white to blue-green

Question 32

Gram stain for fungi/yeast

Answer 32

Hucker's modification (gram positive)

Question 33

Best stain for fungi

Answer 33

Gomori methenamine silver (GMS)

Question 34

Fungi culture are held for

Answer 34

21 days

Question 35

SDA-CC

Answer 35

Mycosel or Mycobiotic Sabouraud dextrose agar with Chloramphenicol and Cycloheximide

Question 36

Enhances chlamydospores of Candida

Answer 36

Cornmeal agar

Question 37

Medium to differentiate T. rubrum form T. mentagrophytes

Answer 37

Cornmeal with 1% dextrose

Question 38

Czapek's agar

Answer 38

Aspergillus

Question 39

Birdseed/Nigerseed/Staib's medium

Answer 39

C. neoformans Black colonies due to phenol oxidase

Question 40

Cottonseed medium

Answer 40

Blastomyces dermatitidis

Question 41

Hair baiting test positive

Answer 41

T. mentagrophytes

Question 42

BHI Chromogenic Dermatophyte test Inhibitory mold Potato flake Mycosel SABHI Yeast-extract phosphate

Answer 42

Primary recovery media for fungi

Question 43

DNA virus replicate in the nucleus EXCEPT

Answer 43

Poxvirus (largest DNA virus)

Question 44

RNA virus replicate in the cytoplasm EXCEPT

Answer 44

Influenza, Retroviruses

Question 45

sDNA

Answer 45

Parvovirus

Question 46

dRNA

Answer 46

Reoviridae

Question 47

Culture cell for CMV

Answer 47

Human diploid fibroblast HDF

Question 48

Culture cell for influenza

Answer 48

Embryonated chicken eggs

Question 49

Cowdry type A

Answer 49

Influenza CPE

Question 50

Koilocytosis

Answer 50

HPV CPE

Question 51

Hemagglutination inhibition

Answer 51

for Rubella and Influenza antibodies

Question 52

For HSV and VZV detection from cutaneous vesicles

Answer 52

Tzanck smear

Question 53

Smallest DNA virus

Answer 53

Parvovirus

Question 54

DNA viruses

Answer 54

"Pa, Pa-Add Po He He" Papilloma + Polyoma = Papova Parvo Adeno Pox Herpes Hepadna

Question 55

Herpesviridae are cultured on

Answer 55

Rabbit kidney cells

Question 56

Positive PAP

Answer 56

Koilocytes Heterogenous cytoplasm Hyperchromatic nucleus

Question 57

Downey cells Infectious mononucleosis Kissing disease

Answer 57

EBV

Question 58

Heterophile-negative infectious mononucleosis Owl's eye inclusion CPE

Answer 58

CMV

Question 59

HHV dormant in T cells

Answer 59

HHV-6 and 7

Question 60

Roseola Exanthem subitum HHV-6 and 7

Answer 60

6th childhood disease

Question 61

HHV-8

Answer 61

Kaposi's sarcoma

Question 62

DNA hybridization technique (molecular) for HPV

Answer 62

Hybrid capture assay

Question 63

PML Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy BKV Hemorrhagic cystitis

Answer 63

Polyomavirus (Papovaviridae)

Question 64

Erythema infectiosum Slapped cheek rash 5th childhood disease

Answer 64

Parvovirus B-19

Question 65

Variola major

Answer 65

Smallpox

Question 66

Variola minor

Answer 66

Alastrim

Question 67

Vaccinia virus

Answer 67

Cowpox

Question 68

Smallest RNA virus

Answer 68

Enterovirus (Picornaviridae)

Question 69

Largest RNA virus

Answer 69

Paramyxoviridae

Question 70

Naked RNA

Answer 70

Calici, Picorna, Reo

Question 71

Arboviruses

Answer 71

Bunya, Toga, Flavi

Question 72

Arboviruses causes

Answer 72

Fever and encephalitis

Question 73

BSL-4 organisms causes

Answer 73

Hemorrhagic fever

Question 74

LCM Lymphocytic choriomeningitis Lassa fever Machupo virus

Answer 74

Arenaviridae

Question 75

California encephalitis group LaCrosse virus Hanta virus

Answer 75

Bunyaviridae

Question 76

Most common cause of diarrhea in adults

Answer 76

Norwalk

Question 77

Norwalk Hepatitis E

Answer 77

Caliciviridae

Question 78

High case fatality in pregnant women

Answer 78

Hepatitis E virus

Question 79

Ebola Marburg virus

Answer 79

Filoviridae

Question 80

Arboviruses (Dengue, Japanese encephalitis, St. Louis, West Nile

Answer 80

Flaviviridae

Question 81

Molecular gold standard of strain typing

Answer 81

Pulse Field Gel Electrophoresis PFGE

Question 82

Hand-foot-mouth disease

Answer 82

Coxsackie A virus

Question 83

Acid resistant enterovirus Acid sensitive enterovirus

Answer 83

Enterovirus Rhinovirus

Question 84

Foot and mouth disease

Answer 84

Aphthovirus

Question 85

ECHO virus

Answer 85

Enteric cytopathic human orphan

Question 86

REOviridae

Answer 86

Respiratory enteric orphan

Question 87

Winter diarrhea Gastroenteritis in children

Answer 87

Rotavirus (Reoviridae)

Question 88

Retroviridae

Answer 88

HIV HTLV

Question 89

Picornaviridae

Answer 89

Enteroviruses: Polio, Coxsackie, Echo, Entero Hepatitis A Rhinovirus

Question 90

Rubella virus Arbovirus

Answer 90

Togaviridae

Question 91

Mild exanthematous disease

Answer 91

Rubella

Question 92

Congenital rubella

Answer 92

German measles (Togaviridae)

Question 93

Photophobia

Answer 93

Chikungunya