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"Spaghetti and meatball" diagnosis
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Pityriasis versicolor
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A lipophilic superficial fungus
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Pityriasis (tinea) versicolor - uses lipid emulsion, illness, malnutrition, high cortisol, and temp
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Reservoir of rhinosporidiosis
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Soil and water
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Presents sessile or pedunculate polyps that develop in mucous membranes
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Nasal rhinosporidiosis
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Treatment is amphotericin B
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Rhinosporidiosis
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Thick walled spherules (sporangia) with endospores inside
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Rhinosporidiosis
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This infection follows the lymph vessels and follows the tract down the arm.
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Sporotrichosis
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Major reservoir is decaying vegetation or soil
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Sporotrichosis
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Characterized asteroid bodies and cigar-shaped budding yeast.
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Sporotrichosis
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Itraconazole is used for treatment of?
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Sporotrichosis
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A major nosocomial opportunistic organism.
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Candidiasis
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Chains of oval-to-globose, budding yeast cells or pseudohyphae.
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Candidia albicans
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Fluconazole or amphotericin B is used for therapy
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Candidia albicans
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White to gray pseudomebrane covering the tongue, raised patches with commisural folds on tongue
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Candidia albicans
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Major reservoir of Cryptococcosis
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Pigeon feces
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Globose cell with thick polysaccharide capsule forming halos
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Cryptococcosis
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Fluconazole is used as treatment
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Cryptococcosis and candida albicans
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Character fungus balls
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Pulmonary aspergillosis
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Acute angle branching, septate hyphae condidal structures
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Aspergillosis
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Amphotericin b is used to treat:
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Aspergillosis
Mucormycosis Coccidiodomycosis Candid albicans |
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Hyphae directly invade blood vessels and cause necrosis, thrombosis, and infarction
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Mucormycosis
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Microabcesses where eosinophils predominate
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Mucormycosis
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Broad branching, non septate or sparse septate hyphae with right angle branching
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Mucormycosis
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Disease is found in dogs, cats and horses
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Blastomycosis- systemic fungal infetion
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Crab claw shadow granulomas or air space diseases
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Blastomycosis
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Ketoconazole is used to treat:
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Blastomycosis
Pityriasis versicolor |
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Systemic fungal infections:
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Blastomycosis
Coccidiodomycosis |
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Found in domestic animal and rodents. Not transmitted by person-person
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Coccidiodomycosis
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