SUBCUTANEOUS MYCOSES

Question 1

Rapidly growing, velvety, or
cottony, olive to black colony; only saprophytic Cladosporium that cannot grow above 37°C

Answer 1

Cladosporium carrionii

Question 2

longstanding lesions that have a cauliflower like surface

Answer 2

chromoblastomycoses

Question 3

very slow-growing, black brown, gray black, or olive gray colony

Answer 3

Fonsecaea pedrosoi

Question 4

Rapidly growing, olive-gray to black, dome-shaped, woolly or cottony colony

Answer 4

Phialophora verrucosa

Question 5

microscopic diagnostic feature of C. carrionii, . pedrosoi, and P. verrucosa

Answer 5

sclerotic bodies (muriform cells)

Question 6

Rapidly growing, moist, shiny, yeasty colony that later develops black, olive, velvety mycelium; grows well at 40°C but other dematiaceous fungi do not

Answer 6

Wangiella dermatitidis

Question 7

Moderately fast-growing, gray to black, moist, yeast-like colony with black woolly mycelium; grows at 37°C but not at 40°C

Answer 7

Exophalia jeanselmi

Question 8

loosely organized conidial head. Branching conidiophores with chains of conidia and flask-shaped phialides also are seen.

Answer 8

Fonsecaea pedrosoi

Question 9

telemorph/sexual form

Answer 9

Pseudoallescheria boydii

Question 10

anamorph/asexual form

Answer 10

Scedosporium apiospermum

Question 11

1 cause of Madurella mycetomatis

Answer 11

Eumycotic Mycetoma

Question 12

chronic, granulomatous
infection of the subcutaneous and cutaneous tissues.
Opportunistic infections,
including nasal sinus infections, meningitis, brain abscesses, and arthritis

Answer 12

Eumycotic Mycetoma

Question 13

sac-like cleistothecia- (ascocarp-) containing asci and ascospores, which are oval, pointed, and released when ascus rupture

Answer 13

teleomorph`

Question 14

golden-brown, elliptoid, single- celled conidia on tips of conidiophores

Answer 14

anamorph

Question 15

Rose gardener’s disease
nodular and ulcerative lesions along the lymph channels Inoculation from
rose thorns or sphagnum
moss

Answer 15

sporotrichosis`

Question 16

narrow, septate
hyphae with pyriform conidia
arranged singly or in floweret
/rosette arrangement;

Answer 16

mycelial form

Question 17

small, elliptoid budding, cigar- shaped yeast

Answer 17

yeast form

Question 18

basophilic yeast surrounded by eosinophilic material due to Ag-Ab reactions

Answer 18

Sporothrix schenckii

Question 19

lipolypoid masses in nose and pharynx

Answer 19

Rhinosporidium (Aquaspersa) seeberi

Question 20

like subcutaneous nodule
in extremities

Answer 20

keloid

Question 21

white, soft granules

Answer 21

• acremonium
• curvularia
• fusarium
• pseudallescheria
• scedosporium

Question 22

black soft granules

Answer 22

• exophalia spp.
• trematosphaeri grisea

Question 23

black hard granules

Answer 23

• aspergillus
• Madurella mycetomatis