MYCOVIRO - CH 60 of book part 3 Flashcards
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- colony: fluffy to granular, white to blue-green
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A. fumigatus
2
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- septate hyphae, short or long conidiophores with “foot cell” (T or L shaped) at the base
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A. fumigatus
3
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- thermotolerant (can withstand up to 45C)
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A. fumigatus
4
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ASPERGILLUS SPP.
- identified by the (2)
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morphology or conidial heads
5
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- conidiophore is coarsely roughened near the vesicle
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A. flavus
6
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- colony: yellow-green
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A. flavus
7
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- globose vesicles producing phialides directly from surface (uniserate) or from metulae, a primary row of cells (biserate)
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A. flavus
8
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- yellow-orange, elliptical or spherical conidia
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A. flavus
9
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- darkly pigmented, roughened spores (macroscopically)
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A. niger
10
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- hyaline and septate hyphae (microscopically)
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A. niger
11
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- colony: begins as yellow then develops black dotted surface as conidia is produced
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A. niger
12
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- reverse side (Aspergillus spp): buff or cream
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A. niger
13
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- long conidiophores
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A. niger
14
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- colony: tan, resembling cinnamon
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A. terreus
15
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- hemispherical vesicles, phialides covers the entire surface
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A. terreus
16
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- aleurioconidia: larger cells found on submerged hyphae
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A. terreus
17
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- globose to elliptical conidia in chains
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A. terreus
18
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- colony: fluffy to cottony, may be pink, purple, yellow, green (depending on species)
- hyphae are small and septate
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FUSARIUM SPP.
19
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- most common medium to induced sporulation of Fusarium
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cornmeal agar:
20
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for identification of Fusarium
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potato dextrose agar
21
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- colony: white to cream, yeastlike
- hyphae are septate with rectangular to cylindrical to barrel-shaped arthroconidia
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GEOTRICHUM CANDIDUM
22
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- initial colony: yeastlike
- mature colony: white to gray to rose or reddish-orange
- small septate hyphae, ellipitical, single-celled conidia
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ACREMONIUM SPP.