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(“yeast infection,”
Cutaneous (diaper, nail)
Esophagitis and thrush mainly in immunosuppressed
Systemic/disseminated disease
Candida albicans
Respiratory, dissemination, meningitis (immunocompromised); may be asymptomatic
Cryptococcus neoformans
Dissemination in immunocompromised with high mortality;
PULMONARY, cardiac, rheumatic conditions
Histoplasma capsulatum
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
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
Lungs --> dissemination; LONG latency (can be > 10 yrs), PULMONARY, lymphadenopathy, sometimes cutaneous fistulae. CXR shows Patchy nodular densities and sometimes consolidations
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
Pulmonary, dissemination, fever, weight loss, pancytopenia
hepatomegaly, umbilicated skin lesions (cutaneous disseminated disease)
Penicillium marneffei
Mucormycosis – disease with angioinvasion and tissue destruction leading to necrosis; Primary cutaneous skin infections (black, necrotic) can result from direct innoculation
Zygomycetes (mucor/rhizopus
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
Diffuse interstitial pneumonia with plasma cell infiltrates, hypoxemia (low pO2)
CXR show patchy alveolar infiltrates- “ground glass” appearance (scattered white blotches)
Pneumocystis jiroveci (PCP)
Chronic, slowly progressing ulcerative lesions on the foot.
Eumycetomas(madurella grisea)
Sporotrichosis- Pustules and ulcers
moving along lymph in bumps (nodules along arm)
Sporothrix schenckii
Asymptomatic, eosinophlic pneumonitis (Loeffler’s syndrome), malnutrition and weight loss. Bowel obstruction may be presenting symptom
Ascaris lumbricoides
Gastroenteritis and Anemia, pneumonitis, eosinophilia, mental and physical growth
retardation, pruritis and edema at entry
Ancytostoma duodenale, Necator americanus
Pneumonia from dragging GI bacteria into lungs (Gram negatives, enterococcus,) bacteremia and G(-) sepsis in immuncomp. Diarrhea and GI pain
Strongyloides stercoralis
Perianal itchiness (or vaginal), can be asymptomatic
*Most common intestinal Helminth in the USA
Enterobius vermicularis
Diarrhea, abdominal pain, Rectal Prolapse from severe tenesmus

football shaped
Trichurius trichura
visceral larvae migrans, retinal larvae migrans
Toxocara canis
elephantitis
Wuchereria bancrofti
Blindness (‘River blindness’) if migrate to eyes,
Hyperpigmentation and pruritus if migrate to skin
Onchocerca volvulus
Foot pain and itchiness, bacterial superinfection possible; huge nemotode
Dracunliasis medinsis
New onset of seizures in adult

cyst formation, ventricles dialate, hydrocephalus --> headaches

Blindness, Neurocysticercosis, encephalitis
Taenia solium
Usually asymptomatic, can cause GI upset, weight loss, dizziness, headaches, bowel obstruction, allergy
T. saginata
macrocytic anemia (high MCV) from B12 deficiency
can also have diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, weight loss, fatigue, constipation and discomfort)
Diphyllobothrium latum
pulmonary - pulm densities, cough, vomica (salty taste in mouth w/ cough = rupture of cyst with spillage of scolices)
HEPATIC!!! w/ hyatid cyst
Echinococcus granulosus
RUQ pain, cholescystitis
Penetrates intestinal wall --> bile ducts --> chronic inflammation --> higher risk of cholangiocarcinoma (↑ risk of gallbladder/biliary cancer)
Opistorchis (Clonorchis) sinensis’
RUQ pain, fever, chills, diarrhea, gallstones, liver abscesses (usually symptomatic)

WATERCRESS
Fasciola hepatica
Clinical: cystic cavities in lung (mimic TB), can invade spinal cord/brain

RAW CRAB
Paragonimus westermani
GERM TUBE
CANDIDA ALBICANS
INDIA INK & PIDGEONS
Cryptococcus neoformans
OHIO, SPELUNKERS, BATS,

Tb -imitator
Histoplasma capsulatum
Great Lakes, Mississippi

Broad Based Budding
Blastomyces dermatitidis
SOUTHWEST & SPHEREAL
Coccidioides immitis
BRAZILLIAN MAN

MARINERS WHEEL
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
AIDS PATIENT IN THAILAND

BINARY FISSION
Penicillium marneffei
DIABETICS
NEUTROPENIC
BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS
Zygomycetes (mucor/rhizopus
FRUITING HEAD
ASPERGILLUS
AIDS DEFINING LESION

GROUND GLASS APPEARANCE IN ALVEOLI
PCP
BAREFOOT FARMER
Eumycetomas(madurella grisea)
ROSE GARDENER
Sporothrix schenckii
HAMPTONS; MALARIA-LIKE
Babesia microti
DEFECATING EGGS

EOSINOPHILS
Ascaris lumbricoides
ANEMIA & BAREFEET
Ancytostoma duodenale, Necator americanus
SEPTICEMIA

DEFECATING LARVAE, NOT EGGS
Strongyloides stercoralis
SCRATCHY BUM DAYCARE KID IN US
Enterobius vermicularis
RECTAL PROLAPSE
Trichurius trichura
SANDBOXES
Toxocara canis
ELEPHANTITIS
BIT AT NIGHT
Wuchereria bancrofti
NEED TO MECHANICALLY REMOVE WORM FROM FOOT
Dracunliasis medinsis
RAW PORK
HOOKLETS
Taenia solium