Mycoses

Question 1

pneumonia with flu like systems
Mississippi and ohio river valleys/great lakes
macrophages with circular inclusions filling up the cytoplasm. exposure to bird/bat droppings in soil

Answer 1

histoplasmosis\
microconidiae
fungus flu
smaller than rbc

Question 2

inflammatory lung disease with possible dissemination to skin and bones; granulomatous nodules
some rando state east of the missisippi or central America
beavers and rotting wood exposure
broad based bud

Answer 2

blastomycosos
indistinct microconidiae
same size as rbc

Question 3

erythema nodosum
arthritis
pneumonia
recent earthquake in southwestern USA
spherules with endospores

Answer 3

coccidioiodomycosis
desert bumps
desert rheumatism
larger than rbc

Question 4

latin America

budding yeast with captains wheel formation

Answer 4

paracoccidioidomycosis

much larger than rbc

Question 5

dermatophyte presentation that you can acquire from infected dog/cat

Answer 5

tinea corporis
has erythematous scaling rings with central clearing
‘‘ringworm’’

Question 6

when I say, spaghetti and meatballs OR malassezia furferi, damaged melanocytes you think?

Answer 6

wedding dress concerns - micro term four memory cue

tinea versicolour

Question 7

those at risk for oral and esophageal candidiasis include?

Answer 7

immunocompromised: preterm neonates, steroids, diabetes, AIDs

Question 8

those at risk for vulvovaginitis candidiasis

Answer 8

antibiotic use, diabetes mellitus

Question 9

those at risk for cutaneous candidiasis

Answer 9

obese and babys @ diaper rash style

Question 10

endocarditis due to candida

Answer 10

IVDU

Question 11

budding yeast
pseudohyphae
true hyphae

Answer 11

candida albicans

Question 12

type of mycoses that people with CGD are at risk for

Answer 12

invasive aspergillosis

Question 13

who is at risk of allergic bronchopulomnary aspergillosis and why?

Answer 13

asthmatica and cystic fibrosis - grows in mucous plugs

associated with bronchiectasis and eosinophila (chlamydia trachomatis D-K in neonate pneumonia)

Question 14

who is at risk fo aspergilloma?

Answer 14

TB patients in lung cavities

Question 15

whats the link between aspergillus and cancer?

Answer 15

aspergillus – alflatoxins – hepatocellular carcinoma

Question 16

pigeon droppings
soap bubble lesions in brain
india ink

Answer 16

Cryptococcus neoformans

meningitis

Question 17

name that fungus.

dichotomous brandhing with acute angles of less than 45 degrees, not dimorphic

Answer 17

aspergillus

Question 18

mucicarmine

Answer 18

Cryptococcus neoformas

Question 19

headache
facial pain
black necrotic eschar on face
possible CN involvement (III, IV, VI, V1 and V2)

Answer 19

mucor and rhizpus

Question 20

fungus associated with diabetic ketoacidosis and leukemia

Answer 20

mucormycoses

Question 21

name that fungus:

irregular, boar ribbon, non septate hyphae with wide angles > 90 degrees

Answer 21

mucor and rhizopus

Question 22

honeycomb @ h and e
ground glass, diffuse interstitial and bilateral @ CXR/CT
AIDS and preterm babies

Answer 22

pnuemocystic jirovecii

Question 23

methenamine silver stain

Answer 23

disc shaped yeast – pneumocystis jirovecii

Question 24

thorn prick
local pustule/ulcer
ascending lymphangitis

Answer 24

sporothrix schenckii

Question 25

hyphae with rosettes/sleevs of conidia

Answer 25

sporothrix schenckii