Yeasts Flashcards
T/F yeasts are large goup of comensals of the GI/Skin and many of them produce disease
FALSE only 3 that really do anything
__________ causes candidiasis and is the most important species
Candida albicans
What are the 4 features of Candida albicans that are used to identify it?
Formation of psuedohyphae w/ typical blastospores
Pdx of thick walled terminal chlamydospores on rice infusion/cornmeal agar
Germ tube test/serum tube test
Fermentation or ssimilation of CHO
Candida albicans causes overgrowths in the digestive tract of __________
poutry
__________ is a problem in pet biurds on antibiotic therapy
Candida albicans
C. albicans causes occasional cutaneous infections in
Dogs
__________ causes mastitis and abortion in cattle
C. albicans
In humans C. albicans causes __________
overgowths, skin folds/diaper rash, occasional urinary/systemic infections
__________ protects agains systemic disease of C. albicans
Antibody
__________ in the feed of chickens has been shown to reduce the #s of C. albicans
Formic Acid
__________ topical application has been useful in skin infections
Nystatin, clotrimazole
__________ causes canine otitis externa
Malassezia pachydermatis
Malassezia pachydermatis is __________ shaped
peanut
Dogs with M. pachydermatis infections exhibit __________
yellowish deposits with a distinct yeast like odor
__________ and __________ are used to treat M. pachydermatis infection
Panolog, vinegar flushes
__________ normal inhabitant of moist skin, see occasional infections
Rhodotorula
__________ __________ causes thrush, vulvovaginits
Saccharomyces cervisiae
__________ __________causes pyelonephritits, pnuemonia
Torulopsis glabrata
__________ causes superficial nodules on the distal portion of hair and opportunistic infections
Trichosporon
__________ Causes chronic infections of the nasal and ocular mucosa of humans, horses, mules etc, infection leads to __________ fomration
Rhinosporidium seebri
polyp
__________ in tissues are filled with thousands of spores, can see grossly on cut section as white specks
sporangia
__________ __________infection leads to mucopurulent nasal discharge and occasional lesions else where in the body
Rhinosporidium seebri
__________ __________ is the cause of sporotrichosis in wquidae, man, cattle and others
Sporothrix schneckii
__________ __________ is the term used to describe Sporothrix schneckii in tissues
cigar bodies
__________ __________ is a common saprophyte on dead plant material, conidia are common in the soil
Sporothrix schneckii
__________ __________ is the disease of Sporothrix schneckii in man
Rosegardener’s disease
__________ is a group of freshwater mold species, cause white or grey pathces on fish
Saprolegnia
__________ __________ normally grow on fish waste and dead cells, capable of invading damaged tissue also will invade eggs and other freshwater species eggs
Saprolegnia
T/F sppongeloniasis is commonly 2ndry to bacterial or viral infection
True
