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U6 LEC: OPPORTUNISTIC MYCOSES Flashcards

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Infections in patients with immune deficiencies who would otherwise not be infected.

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Opportunistic Mycoses

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Opportunistic mycoses are seen in those people with impaired host defenses such as?

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  • AIDS
  • Alteration of Normal Flora
  • Diabetes Mellitus
  • Immunosuppressive therapy
  • Malignancy
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Part of a normal human flora

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Endogenous

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Examples of Endogenous Mycoses

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  • Candida spp.
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii
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Most common endogenous mycoses, indicator of weak immune system

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thrush (Candida spp.)

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Fungus does not normally live in/on human body

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Exogenous

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Examples of Exogenous Mycoses

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  • Cryptococcus neoformans
  • Aspergillus (different species)
  • Zygomycetes
  • Many Other Fungi
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Causative agent of Candidiasis or Moniliasis

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Candida albicans and other Candida spp.

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Candida albicans causes?

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Candidiasis or Moniliasis

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Candidiasis

oval, buddying yeast that produces?

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pseudohyphae

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T/F: Candida albicans causes the most frequent opportunistic fungal infections.

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True

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Candidiasis

harmless inhabitants of the?

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skin and mucous membranes (RT, GIT, Female Genital Tract)

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T/F: Normal immune system keeps Candida on body surfaces.

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True

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Other Candida species

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  • C. tropicalis
  • C. krusei
  • C. parapsilosis
  • C. glabrata
  • C. gullermondii
  • C. lusitaniae
  • C. kefyr
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Candidiasis

Main Defense Mechanisms

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  • skin and mucous membranes integrity
  • presence of normal bacterial flora
  • phagocytosis
  • killing (most in PMNs, less in macrophages)
  • T cells (CD4)
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Candidiasis

Important Risk Factors

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  • Neutropenia
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • AIDS
  • SCID
  • Myeloperoxidase defects
  • Broad-spectrum antibiotics
  • Indwelling catheters
  • Major surgery
  • Organ transplantation
  • Neonates
  • Severity of an illness
  • Intravenous drug addicts
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17
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Candidiasis

Clinical Forms

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  1. Cutaneous and Mucosal
  2. Invasive
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Candidiasis

Manifestations under Cutaneous and Mucosal Candidiasis

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  • Oral thrush
  • Oezophagitis
  • Vulvovaginal infection
  • Cutaneous candidiasis (skin trauma, burn patients)
  • Onchomycosis
  • Mucocutaneous candidiasis (SCID patients)
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Invasive Candidiasis also refers to?

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Systemic, Disseminated, Hematogenous Candidiasis

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Invasive Candidiasis

begins with?

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candidemia (only 50% can be proven)

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Invasive Candidiasis

If phagocytic system is normal?

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invasive infection stops here (destroyed by phagocytes)

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Invasive Candidiasis

If phagocytic system is compromised?

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infection spreads to many organs (causes focal infection)

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Invasive Candidiasis

Mortality of candidemia

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30-40%

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Candidiasis

Specimen

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  • Swabs or scrappings from lesions
  • Sputum
  • CSF
  • Exudates
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Candidiasis

Microscopic

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Gram (+) oval, budding yeast/elongated budding cells in chain (pseudohyphae)

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Candidiasis

SDA

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soft, cream-colored colonies with yeasty odor, surface growth consists of oval budding cells

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Candidiasis

Ferments?

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glucose and maltose producing acid and gas

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Candidiasis

Serological test

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Precipitation tests

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This agar is used to differentiate Candida based on?

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color

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30
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CHROM agar

Green

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C. albicans

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CHROM agar

Pink

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C. krusei

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CHROM agar

Metallic blue

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C. tropicalis

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CHROM agar

White to mauve

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Other species

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This is done for Candida albicans in presence of high protein content.

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Germ tube

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Germ Tube

specimen

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plasma or serum

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Germ Tube

(+) result

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presence of germ tube

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Germ Tube

What Candida spp. is present if there is (+) result?

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Candida dubliniensis

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Chlamydoconidia is present in?

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C. albicans and C. dubliniensis

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Candidiasis

Epidemiology

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  • Endogenous
  • Cross infections (ICU patients)
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Candidiasis

Treatment

A

Neutropenic patients: Amphotericin B

Non neutropenic patients:
Nystatin, Caspofungin

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Candidiasis

This treatment suppresses intestinal and vaginal candidiasis

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Nystatin

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Causative agent of Pneumocystis Pneumonia

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Pneumocystis jirovecii

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Pneumocystis jirovecii causes?

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Pneumocystis Pneumonia

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Pneumocystis jirovecii is formerly called?

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P. carinii

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45
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Pneumocystis

previously classified as?

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protozoa

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Pneumocystis

considered as fungus based on?

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nucleic acid and biochemical analysis

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47
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Pneumocystis

Present in?

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lung of many mammals

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Pneumocystis

Infection in humans

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persistent but harmless

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Pneumocystis

Main Risk Factors

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  • AIDS
  • Transplantation
  • Corticosteroid
  • Antineoplastic therapy
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Pneumocystis

Main defense mechanism

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T-cell mediated

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Pneumocystis

Causes what in immunocompromised patients?

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Interstitial pneumonitis

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Pneumocystis

Specimens can be?

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sputum, bronchoalveolar lavage

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Pneumocystis

Treatment and Prevention

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Co-trimoxazole or Pentamidine

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54
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Causative agent of Cryptococcosis or Torulosis

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Cryptococcus neoformans

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This causes Cryptococcosis

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Cryptococcus neoformans

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Other term for Cryptococcosis

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Cryptococcosis

causes an acute or chronic infection that involves the brain, called?

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meningitis

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Cryptococcosis

occurs worldwide in?

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soil and in bird droppings

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Cryptococcosis

Prominent feature

A

thick polysaccharide capsule

60
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Cryptococcosis

Infection is via?

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respiratory tract

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Cryptococcosis

Symptoms associated with?

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nonspecific pulmonary signs and symptoms

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Cryptococcosis

May disseminate in other organs like?

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brain (cryptococcal meningitis)

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Cryptococcosis

Clinical manifestation

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slowly developing chronic meningitis that resembles a brain tumor, brain abscess, degenerative CNS disease

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Cryptococcosis

Specimen

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CSF, Exudate, Sputum, Urine

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Cryptococcosis

Microscopic

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round or ovoid, often budding with thick capsule

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Cryptococcosis

SDA

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cream, shiny, mucoid colonies

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Cryptococcosis

Serological tests

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Cryptococcal polysaccharide capsular antigen test, latex agglutination test

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Cryptococcosis

Treatment

A

Combination of chemotherapy of Amphotericin B and Flucytosine

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Cryptococcosis

Main Risk Factors

A
  • T cell deficiency (AIDS)
  • Corticosteroid therapy
  • Organ transplantation
  • Hematological malignancy
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Cryptococcosis

Main Defense Mechanism

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Cryptococcosis

Treatment

A

Amphotericin B +
- Flucytosine

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Cryptococcosis

Recurrence Prevention

A

Fluconazole

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Cryptococcosis

Epidemiology

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Exogenous, not transmitted from human to human

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Cryptococcosis

This agar is used to detect the enzyme, phenol oxidase

A

Niger Seed Agar (Bird Seed Agar)

75
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Causative agent of Aspergillosis

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Aspergillus spp.

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Aspergillus spp. causes?

A

Aspergillosis

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Aspergillosis

Worldwide occurring saprophytes, living in?

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soil and plants (small conidia that form aerosols)

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Aspergillosis

Most common

A

Aspergillus fumigatus

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Aspergillosis

Other species

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  • A. flavus
  • A. niger
  • A. terreus
  • A. nidulans
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Aspergillosis

Produces aflatoxins in food

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Aspergillosis

Specimen

A

Tissue biopsy

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Aspergillosis

Microscopic

A

hyphal fragments (using methenamine silver)

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Aspergillosis

Cultivation in SDA

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gray to green colonies

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Aspergillosis

Main Defense Mechanisms

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Phagocytosis

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Aspergillosis

Treatment

A
  • Amphotericin B
  • Itraconazole
  • Flucytosine
  • Surgery
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Aspergillosis

Prevention

A

Avoid exposure to conidia (new buildings)

87
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Aspergillosis

Main Risk Factors

A
  • Hematological malignancy
  • Bone marrow transplantation
  • Corticosteroid therapy
88
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Causative agent of Zygomycosis

A
  • Mucor
  • Rhizopus
  • Absidia
  • Rhizomucor
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Zygomycosis is also called as?

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Mucormycosis
Phycomycosis

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Zygomycosis

invasive disease caused by?

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Zygomycetes (Mucor, Rhizopus, Rhizomucor, Absidia)

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Zygomycosis

These fungi are?

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ubiquitous thermotolerant saprophyte

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Zygomycosis

spores are present in?

A

air and dust

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Obsolete polyphyletic taxon, forms coenocytic hyphae and reproduce asexually by producing sporangiophores within which develops sporangiospores

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Class Phycomycetes

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Rhizopus

Mycelium, 3 types of hyphae

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  • Stolon
  • Rhizoid
  • Sporangiophores
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Mucor

Mycelium

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1 type only: Sporangiophores

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Rhizoids

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R: Present

M: not present

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Food

A

R: absorbed by rhizoids

M: absorbed by entire mycelial surface

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Sporangiophores

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R: occurs in tufts from the stolons opposite the rhizoids

M: occur singly from any point on the mycelium

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Spores

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R: easily disseminated by the wind

M: remain adhered to the columella, not easily disseminated

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Absidia

Difference from Rhizopus

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Rhizoids in between Sporangiosphores

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Absidia

Difference from Mucor

A

Mucor have no rhizoids

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Rhizomucor

Difference from Mucor

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have rhizoids and stolons, grow at 50-55C

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Rhizomucor

Difference from Absidia

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have globose sporangia, sporangiophores are not swollen where they merge with the columella

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Zygomycosis

Risk Factors

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  • Acidosis
  • Leukemias
  • Lymphoma
  • Corticosteroid treatment
  • Severe burns
  • Immunodeficiencies
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Zygomycosis

Clinical Manifestations

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  • Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis
  • Thoracic Mucormycosis
  • Other sites of invasion
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This disease can progress rapidly with invasion of the sinuses, eyes, cranial bones and brain

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Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis

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Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis

Results from germination of?

A

sporangiospores in nasal passages

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Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis

Invasion of?

A

hyphae into blood vessels

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Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis

Invasion of hyphae causes?

A
  • Thrombosis
  • Infarction
  • Necrosis
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Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis

Patients develop?

A
  • edema of involved facial area
  • bloody nasal exudate
  • orbital cellulitis
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Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis

Almost invariably associated with?

A
  • acute diabetes mellitus
  • debilitating disease (leukemia, lymphoma)
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Thoracic Mucormycosis

Follows inhalation of sporangiospores with?

A

invasion of lung parenchyma and vasculature

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Thoracic Mucormycosis

In both locations, this causes massive tissue destruction

A

ischemic necrosis

114
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Other Sites of Invasion

Skin infections following burns or surgery

A

Primary cutaneous infections

115
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Other Sites of Invasion

These are also reported

A

Subcutaneous zygomycosis

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Zygomycosis

Specimen

A

Nasal discharge, sputum, biopsy

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Zygomycosis

Microsopic (KOH)

A

broad and aseptate, branched mycelium, sometimes distorted hyphae, clearly stained by Methenamine silver stain

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Zygomycosis

SDA

A

Abundant and cottony

119
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Zygomycosis

Treatment

A

Amphotericin B

120
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Causative agent of Penicilliosis / Talaromycosis

A

Talaromyces marneffei

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Talaromyces marneffei causes?

A

Penicilliosis

122
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Other term for Penicilliosis

A

Talaromycosis

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Talaromyces marneffei is formerly known as?

A

Penicillium

124
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T/F: There are more than 100 Penicillium species.

A

False

more than 150

125
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Penicilliosis

Form

A

thermally dimorphic

126
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Penicilliosis

Present in?

A

environment (saprophytes), grow on various substrates (bread, jam, fruit, cheese)

127
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Penicilliosis

Important opportunistic pathogen in?

A

HIV infected

128
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Penicilliosis

Causes?

A

disseminated infection with multiple organ involvement

129
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Penicilliosis

Common in?

A

Southeast Asia

130
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Penicilliosis

Risk Factors

A
  • Adult-onset immunodeficiency syndrome
  • Cancer
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Organ transplant
131
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Penicilliosis

These can also get Talaromycosis.

A

Bamboo rats (no evidence of spread from rats to people)

132
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T/F: Penicilliosis has no person to person spread.

133
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Penicilliosis

Specimen

A

Bone marrow, blood, lung fluids, lymph nodes, skin

134
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Penicilliosis

Microscopic

A

yeast are small, oval, 2-4um in diameter

135
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Penicilliosis

SDA

A

yellow green colonies with characteristic soluble red pigment

136
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Penicilliosis

Molecular techniques

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Penicilliosis

Treatment

A

Amphotericin B, Oral Itraconazole

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