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17 Cards in this Set
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what is a saprophytes
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its fungus it feeds off of dead decaying material
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what is the strands of cells joined together to form filaments
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hyphae
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what is the vegetative body composed of numerous hyphae called
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mycelium
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what forms conidia
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conidiophores
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what is a fungal infection called
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mycoses
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superficial mycoses
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outer layer of skin, hair, no immune response
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cutaneous/subcutaneous mycoses
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living structures of hair and skin,
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systemic mycoses
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begin in the lungs and spread
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opportunistic mycoses
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normal microflora which have increased or organisms who take "opportunity" to infect immunocomprimised individual
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what is another word for something that feeds of off dead decaying material
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saprophytes
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are yeasts multi or uni cellular
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unicellular
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name candida albicans-disease, POE, Specimen, and diagnostic
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disease- opportunistic in vulvovaginitis and thrush
POE- none its already in it ID-Swab of vag or throat-Diagnostic-psuedohyphae |
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pnuemocystic carinii-disease-POE and stage-Specimen-Diagnostic
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disease- Pnuemonia- POE- inhalation in cyst stage- yeast cells in lung tissue with bipsy-diagnostic stained circular cysts
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are molds multi or uni cellular
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multi
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name Penicillum chrysogenum
POE and stage-specimen-diagnostic |
disease-respiratory and uti- POe and stage- inhalation, conidia- specimen- sputum or urine-diagnostic conidiophores contain conidiospores with conidia(skeletal hands)
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what is the significance with penicillum chrysogenum
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penicillin antibiotic
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aspergillus- disease-poe and stage- specimen-diagnostic
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aspergillosis- poe and stage- inhilation of spores- tissue samples with specimen-circular shapes conidiospores
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