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(“yeast infection,”
Cutaneous (diaper, nail) Esophagitis and thrush mainly in immunosuppressed Systemic/disseminated disease |
Candida albicans
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Respiratory, dissemination, meningitis (immunocompromised); may be asymptomatic
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Cryptococcus neoformans
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Dissemination in immunocompromised with high mortality;
PULMONARY, cardiac, rheumatic conditions |
Histoplasma capsulatum
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Clinical:
-Asymptomatic: most common -Symptomatic: can develop subacute to chronic pneumonia, cough, fever, lung infiltrates on CXR -Disseminated (immunocompromised>competent): Spreads to skin, bones, prostate Cutaneous infection -verrucous or volaceous lesions generally as result from hematogenous spread |
Blastomyces dermatitidis
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Asymptomatic, flu-like symptoms (10-16 days post-exposure), San Joaquin Valley Fever is less common (rash, erythema nodosum, joint pain, conjunctivitis), may disseminate, esp. to CNS rash can become STEVEN JOHNSON’S SYNDROME!!
Symptoms and signs can include fever, chest pain, headache, fatigue, chills, anorexia |
Coccidioides immitis
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Lungs --> dissemination; LONG latency (can be > 10 yrs), PULMONARY, lymphadenopathy, sometimes cutaneous fistulae. CXR shows Patchy nodular densities and sometimes consolidations
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Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
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Pulmonary, dissemination, fever, weight loss, pancytopenia
hepatomegaly, umbilicated skin lesions (cutaneous disseminated disease) |
Penicillium marneffei
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Mucormycosis – disease with angioinvasion and tissue destruction leading to necrosis; Primary cutaneous skin infections (black, necrotic) can result from direct innoculation
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Zygomycetes(mucor/rhizopus
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4 DISEASES
ABPA – hypersensitivity rxn, asthmatic, cystic fibrosis patient, etc Make a fungus ball w/in a cavity (TB PATIENT!!!) PULMONARY DISEASE ; if don’t have WBC to kill off, will kill you Primary cutaneous infection DON’T BRING FLOWERS |
Aspergillus
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Diffuse interstitial pneumonia with plasma cell infiltrates, hypoxemia (low pO2)
CXR show patchy alveolar infiltrates- “ground glass” appearance (scattered white blotches) |
Pneumocystis jiroveci (PCP)
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Chronic, slowly progressing ulcerative lesions on the foot.
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Eumycetomas(madurella grisea)
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Sporotrichosis- Pustules and ulcers
moving along lymph in bumps (nodules along arm) |
Sporothrix schenckii
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Asymptomatic, eosinophlic pneumonitis (Loeffler’s syndrome), malnutrition and weight loss. Bowel obstruction may be presenting symptom
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Ascaris lumbricoides
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Gastroenteritis and Anemia, pneumonitis, eosinophilia, mental and physical growth
retardation, pruritis and edema at entry |
Ancytostoma duodenale,Necator americanus
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Pneumonia from dragging GI bacteria into lungs (Gram negatives, enterococcus,) bacteremia and G(-) sepsis in immuncomp. Diarrhea and GI pain
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Strongyloides stercoralis
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Perianal itchiness (or vaginal), can be asymptomatic
*Most common intestinal Helminth in the USA |
Enterobius vermicularis
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Diarrhea, abdominal pain, Rectal Prolapse from severe tenesmus
football shaped |
Trichurius trichura
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visceral larvae migrans, retinal larvae migrans
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Toxocara canis
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elephantitis
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Wuchereria bancrofti
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Blindness (‘River blindness’) if migrate to eyes,
Hyperpigmentation and pruritus if migrate to skin |
Onchocerca volvulus
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Foot pain and itchiness, bacterial superinfection possible; huge nemotode
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Dracunliasis medinsis
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New onset of seizures in adult
cyst formation, ventricles dialate, hydrocephalus --> headaches Blindness, Neurocysticercosis, encephalitis |
Taenia solium
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Usually asymptomatic, can cause GI upset, weight loss, dizziness, headaches, bowel obstruction, allergy
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T. saginata
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macrocytic anemia (high MCV) from B12 deficiency
can also have diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, weight loss, fatigue, constipation and discomfort) |
Diphyllobothrium latum
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pulmonary - pulm densities, cough, vomica (salty taste in mouth w/ cough = rupture of cyst with spillage of scolices)
HEPATIC!!! w/ hyatid cyst |
Echinococcus granulosus
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RUQ pain, cholescystitis
Penetrates intestinal wall --> bile ducts --> chronic inflammation --> higher risk of cholangiocarcinoma (↑ risk of gallbladder/biliary cancer) |
Opistorchis (Clonorchis) sinensis’
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RUQ pain, fever, chills, diarrhea, gallstones, liver abscesses (usually symptomatic)
WATERCRESS |
Fasciola hepatica
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Clinical: cystic cavities in lung (mimic TB), can invade spinal cord/brain
RAW CRAB |
Paragonimus westermani
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GERM TUBE
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CANDIDA ALBICANS
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INDIA INK & PIDGEONS
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Cryptococcus neoformans
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OHIO, SPELUNKERS, BATS,
Tb -imitator |
Histoplasma capsulatum
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Great Lakes, Mississippi
Broad Based Budding |
Blastomyces dermatitidis
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SOUTHWEST & SPHEREAL
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Coccidioides immitis
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BRAZILLIAN MAN
MARINERS WHEEL |
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
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AIDS PATIENT IN THAILAND
BINARY FISSION |
Penicillium marneffei
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DIABETICS
NEUTROPENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS |
Zygomycetes(mucor/rhizopus
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FRUITING HEAD
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ASPERGILLUS
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AIDS DEFINING LESION
GROUND GLASS APPEARANCE IN ALVEOLI |
PCP
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BAREFOOT FARMER
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Eumycetomas(madurella grisea)
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ROSE GARDENER
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Sporothrix schenckii
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HAMPTONS; MALARIA-LIKE
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Babesia microti
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DEFECATING EGGS
EOSINOPHILS |
Ascaris lumbricoides
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ANEMIA & BAREFEET
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Ancytostoma duodenale,Necator americanus
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SEPTICEMIA
DEFECATING LARVAE, NOT EGGS |
Strongyloides stercoralis
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SCRATCHY BUM DAYCARE KID IN US
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Enterobius vermicularis
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RECTAL PROLAPSE
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Trichurius trichura
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SANDBOXES
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Toxocara canis
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ELEPHANTITIS
BIT AT NIGHT |
Wuchereria bancrofti
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NEED TO MECHANICALLY REMOVE WORM FROM FOOT
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Dracunliasis medinsis
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RAW PORK
HOOKLETS |
Taenia solium
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