Oral Pathology Test 1 Flashcards
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What forms the primary palate?
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Merger of the medial nasal processes
2
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What forms the secondary palate?
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Maxillary processes of the first branchial arches
3
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What is the rule of 10’s?
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10 weeks, 10 pounds, 10 g % HM
4
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What form of cleft lip/palate is most common non-syndromically?
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Both
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What form of cleft lip/palate is most common syndromically?
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Cleft palate only
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What three symptoms are typically present in Pierre Robin Syndrome?
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- CP, 2. Mandibular micrognathia and 3. Glossoptosis
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What causes a lateral facial cleft?
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Failure of the maxillary and mandibular processes to fuse
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What causes an oblique facial cleft?
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Failure of fusion of the maxillary process with the lateral nasal process
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What causes a median cleft of the upper lip?
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Failure of the fusion of the medial nasal processes
10
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What is the prevalence of facial clefting in Native Americans?
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1:250
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What is the prevalence of facial clefting in Asians?
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1:300
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What is the prevalence of facial clefting in Whites?
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1:700
13
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What is the prevalence of facial clefting in African Americans?
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1:1500
14
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What form of clefting is most common in males?
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Both
15
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What form of clefting is most common in females?
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Cleft palate only
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What is it called when the palate has a small area that fails to fuse that is covered with gingival tissue?
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Submucous palatal cleft
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What is it called when you have “dimples” in the corners of your mouth?
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Commissural lip pits
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What is it called when you have “dimples” in the middle of your lower lip?
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Paramedian lip pits
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What syndrome is associated with “dimples” in the middle of your lower lip?
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Van der Woude syndrome
20
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What three things are important to remember about the syndrome that causes “dimples” in the lower lip?
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- Autosomal dominant, 2. CL + CP and 3. Most common form of syndromic clefting
21
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What are the three symptoms indicative of Ascher syndrome?
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- Double lip, 2. Blepharochalasis and 3. Nontoxic thyroid enlargement
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What are sebaceous glands on the lips known as?
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Fordyce granules
23
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What would the diagnosis be if the patient exhibits white lesions found bilaterally on the buccal mucosa that do not rub off, but disappear when the cheek is stretched?
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Leukoedema
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What group is especially likely to have white lesions on the buccal mucosa that do not rub off, but disappear when the cheek is stretched?
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African Americans
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What two things are the main cause of macroglossia?
1. Vascular malformations and 2. Muscular hypertrophy
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What group experiences macroglossia more than any other?
Children
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What syndrome is associated with macroglossia?
Beckwith-Wiedmann syndrome
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Should a bulge be present on the patient's tongue between the middle 2/3 and the back 1/3, what is it likely?
Lingual Thyroid
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What are the two names of cracks covering the tongue?
1. Fissure tongue and 2. Scrotal tongue
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What two names are associated with the syndrome that is characterized by inflammation that spreads around the tongue frequently?
1. Geographic tongue and 2. Erythema migrans
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Coronoid hyperplasia causes the jaw to deviate which way?
Towards the affected side
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Condylar hyperplasia causes the jaw to deviate which way?
Towards the unaffected side
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What is it called when a salivary gland gets "stuck" in the mandible?
Stafne defect
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What is a cyst?
A pathologic cavity lined by epithelium
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In the very rare case that you have a radiolucency in the maxilla, what are the two most likely culprits?
1. Radicular cysts and 2. periapical granulomas
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Between which two teeth would one likely find a globulomaxillary radiolucency?
Maxillary lateral incisor and canine
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What is the most common non-odontogenic cyst of the oral cavity?
Nasopalatine duct cyst
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What is the well-circumscribed radiolucency measurement that marks a cyst from a normal incisive canal?
6 mm
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What is the name given to the benign, cystic form of teratoma that is lined by epidermis-like epithelium and contains adnexal structures?
Dermoid cyst
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Where do dermoid cysts occur?
At the midline with swelling in the floor of the mouth (FOM)
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What presents as a white or yellow, asymptomatic, submucosal mass less than a cm in diameter?
Lymphoepithelial cyst
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What is Waldeyer's ring?
The area from the palatine tonsils to the lingual tonsils to the pharyngeal adenoids
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What is the progressive atrophy of one side of the face called?
Progressive hemifacial atrophy
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What bacteria is associated with atrophy of one side of the face?
Borelia sp. (Lyme disease)
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What is the syndrome associated with syndactyly of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th digits, mental retardation and trapezoid shape lips?
Apert syndrome
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What is the term that is synonymous with treacher-collins syndrome?
Mandibulofacial dysostosis
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What goes wrong in treacher-collins syndrome during development?
The first and second branchial arches have defects
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What is the term given to enamel defects formed in permanent teeth due to the periapical inflammatory disease of the overlying deciduous tooth?
Turner's hypoplasia/tooth
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What permanent tooth is particularly in danger in the case of periapical inflammatory disease present in the overlying deciduous tooth?
Permanent bicuspids
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What are the two affects of congenital syphilis on teeth?
1. Hutchinson's incisors (screwdriver shaped) and 2. Mulberry molars
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What three symptoms make up Hutchinson's Triad?
1. Hutchinson's teeth, 2. Interstital keratitis (corneal scarring) and 3. 8th nerve deafness
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What is a prominent feature of congenital syphilis often exhibited by patients?
Saddle nose
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What is the term for tooth wear from tooth-tooth contact (bruxism)?
Attrition
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What is the term for tooth wear from aggressive tooth brushing?
Abrasion
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What is the term for tooth wear from dental exposure to chemicals?
Erosion
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What is the term for tooth wear from GERD?
Perimolysis
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What is the term for tooth wear from occlusal stresses that created repeated tooth flexure?
Abfraction
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What is it called when an individual is missing 1 or more teeth?
Hypodontia
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What is it called when an individual is missing 6 or more teeth?
Oligodontia
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What is it called when an individual has supernumerary teeth?
Hyperdontia
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Where is the most common site to have supernumerary teeth and what are they called?
Maxillary incisor region - mesiodens
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What is it called when an enlarged tooth is counted and the count is normal?
Gemination
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What is it called when an enlarged tooth is counted and the count is one below what it should be?
Fusion
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What is a bend in the root called?
Dilaceration
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What is the fusion of two adjacent teeth by cementum alone called?
Concrescence
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What is it called when a tooth tries to form inside another tooth?
Dens-in-dente (dens invaginatus)
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Where is the most common place to find a tooth growing within a tooth?
Permanent lateral incisors
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What is the name of the disease where the body and pulp chamber of the tooth is enlarged with a significant apical displacement of the pulpal floor?
Taurodontism
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What three syndromes are associated with apical enlargement of the pulpal floor in teeth?
1. Kleinfelters Syndrome (XXY), 2. Amelogenesis imperfecta, and 3. Tricho-dento-osseous syndrome
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What are the three forms of Amelogenesis imperfecta?
1. Hypoplastic, 2. Hypomaturation and 3. hypocalcified
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What is pitting and the total lack of enamel formation known as?
Hypoplastic amelogenesis imperfecta
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What is a snow-capped appearance with mottled, opaque white-brown-yellow discoloration of enamel known as?
Hypomaturation amelogenesis imperfecta
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What is a brown/black enamel appearance where enamel is soft and easily lost called?
Hypocalcified amelogenesis imperfecta
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What gene is disrupted to cause dentinogenesis imperfecta?
DSPP gene
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How does dentinogenesis imperfecta appear on an X-ray?
Bulbous crowns, cervical constrictions, thin roots, early obliteration of root canals/pulp chambers and shell teeth (dramatically enlarged pulps)
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What autosomal dominant disease causes "rootless teeth"?
Dentin dysplasia, type I
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What autosomal dominant disease causes blue teeth with bulbous crowns, cervical constriction, thin roots and thistle tube-shaped pulp anatomy?
Dentin dysplasia, type II
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What is the disease that is non-hereditary, causes areas of unerupted teeth, and shows "ghost teeth" on x-rays?
Regional Odontodysplasia
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What four outcomes are the sequelae of periapical pathology?
1. Sinus tracts, 2. Osteomyelitis, 3. Cellulitis and 4. Condensing Osteitis
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What are the four types of lesions that can be found periapically?
1. Periapical granuloma, 2. Apical periodontal cyst, 3. Periapical abscess and 4. Periapical scar
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What is the most common periapical pathosis?
Periapical granuloma
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What tooth is the most frequently affected by the most common periapical pathosis?
Maxillary lateral incisor
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What causes a periapical granuloma?
Chronic inflammation
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What is the name of a secondary acute inflammatory change within the most common periapical pathosis?
Phoenix abscess
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What lesions appears periapically with variable size, punched-out border and causes an area of radiolucency around the root tips?
Periapical granuloma
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What is the second most common periapical lesion?
Apical periodontal cyst
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What becomes inflamed in a periapical cyst?
Rests of Malassez
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What term describes acute or chronic inflammation in bone?
Osteomyelitis
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When infection of mandibular teeth spreads through the sublingual, submandibular and submental spaces, what term describes the appearance of the cellulitis that occurs?
Ludwig's Angina
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What disease causes "woody tongue"?
Sublingual Ludwig's angina
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What disease causes "bull neck"?
Submandibular Ludwig's angina
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What causes a swelling of the periorbital region and typically results from the abscess of a maxillary anterior or premolar tooth?
Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis
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What is the name of the hypersensitivity reaction that occurs to cinnamon oil on the gums?
Plasma cell gingivitis
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What is the full name that "Wright's lesion" shortens?
Localized Juvenile Spongiotic Gingivitis
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What term is given to describe gingival epithelium that spontaneously sloughs or can be removed with minor manipulation?
Desquamative Gingivitis
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What five possibilities exist when desquamative gingivitis is present?
1. Lichen Planus, 2. Mucous membrane pemphigoid, 3. Pemphigus vulgaris, 4. Systemic lupus erythematosis and 5. Hypersensitivity
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When drugs cause gingival overgrowth to occur what is this known as?
Drug-related gingival hyperplasia
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What three drugs cause gingival overgrowth?
1. Cyclosporine, 2. Phenytoin and 3. Nifedipine
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What is the name of the inflammatory process that can occur when the crown of a third molar is partially erupted?
Pericornitis
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What is the syndrome that is autosomal recessive, causes accelerated periodontitis and has teeth that are "floating in air" on radiographs?
Papillon-Lefevre Syndrome
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What two bacteria can cause Impetigo?
Streptococcus pyogenes and S. aureus
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What two forms of Impetigo exist?
1. Bullous and 2. Nonbullous
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Which form of Impetigo is most prevalent?
Nonbullous
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What causes Scarlet Fever?
Group A beta hemolytic Strep
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What is the causal agent of Diphtheria?
Cornebacterium diphtheriae
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What causes Syphilis?
Treponema pallidum
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What is seen in primary syphilis?
Chancre at site of inoculation
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What is strange about the ulceration for syphilis?
Its painless
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What is seen in secondary syphilis?
Diffuse, painless, widespread rash
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What is seen in tertiary syphilis?
Gumma
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What is the causal agent of Gonnorhoeae?
Neisseria gonnorhoeae
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What is the most common reportable infectious disease in the U.S.?
Gonnorhoeae
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What is the name of TB of the skin?
Lupus vulgaris
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What is the name given to a mycobacterial infection caused by drinking contaminated milk that causes enlarged cervical lymph nodes?
Scrofula
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What is the name of the disease where bacteria colonize the mouth and work their way to the dermis and discharge yellow, sulfur material?
Actinomycosis
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What bacteria causes sulfur granulation?
Actinomyces israelii
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What bacteria is responsible for causing cat-scratch disease?
Bartonella henselae
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What two forms of Candidiasis exist?
1. Yeast form - innoculous and 2. Hyphal form - pathologic form
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What four types of Candidiasis are seen in patients?
1. Pseudomembranous, 2. Erythematous, 3. Chronic Hyperplastic and 4. Mucocutaneous
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What form of Candidiasis is best recognized and is known as thrush?
Pseudomembranous
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What form of Candidiasis appears white, but cannot be removed and is the least common form of candidiasis?
Chronic hyperplastic
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What form of Candidiasis is linked to a rare group of immunologic disorders and has white plaques that do not rub off?
Mucocutaneous
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What disease is the most common systemic fungal infection in the U.S., comes from bird or bat excrement and is endemic to the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys?
Histoplasmosis
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What is the organism that causes Histoplasmosis?
Histoplasma capsulatum
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What is the organism that causes Blastomycosis?
Blastomyces dermatitidis
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What disease has symptoms similar to TB, comes from the Eastern U.S. and Canada and looks like cancer in the mouth?
Blastomycosis
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What is the causative agent of the disease that comes from the armadillo, is from South America and typically infects farm workers?
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
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Which disease has symptoms that appears like "mickey mouse" or a "mariner's wheel"?
Paracoccidioidmycosis
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What is the name of the disease that is caused by a fungal infection likely acquired in the Southwest U.S.?
Coccidioidomycosis (San Joaquin Valley Fever)
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Which fungus appears like a "bag of marbles"?
Coccidioides immitis
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What fungal disease comes from pigeon poop, mostly affects immune-compromised, and tends to target the meninges when it spreads?
Cryptococcosis
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What is the causative fungal agent that lives in pigeon poop?
Cryptococcus neoformans
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What is the name of the fungal disease that comes from organisms found on decaying organic material, has enhanced growth from iron, and targets diabetics and immunocompromised patients?
Zygomycosis
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What fungal disease causes a mass to form, can cause allergic reactions in the sinuses, and is second most frequent in the world?
Aspergillosis
