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What is the parasitic form of Coccidioides immitis? What is the saprophytic form?
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Parasitic: Spherulin
Saprophytic: Arthroconidium |
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Which of the fungal infections are opportunists?
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Zygomycosis
Candidiasis Cryptococcosis Aspergilliasis |
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What causes Rose Gardeners Disease?
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Sporothrix schenckii
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You isolate pigmented cigar shaped yeast from a pt, what infection do you suspect the pt has?
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Sporotrichosis
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Which of the fungal infections is acquired primarily through implantation?
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Sporotrichosis
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Which fungal infection's hallmark effect is skin and lymphatic system?
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Sporotrichosis
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What unique drug is used to treated sporothrix infection?
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KI
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What infection is spread by contact and is treated by Tolnaftate, Griseolfulvin, and Sporanox?
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Dermatophytosis
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What is the parasitic form of microsporum, trichophyton, and epidermophyton? What infections do they cause?
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Parasitic for is conidia and the infections are call tinea (dermatophytosis)
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What fungal infection can be found around the upper mississippi river valley?
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Histoplasmosis
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What fungus is characterized by large, aseptate hyphae and sporangiospores?
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Zygomycosis
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What two fungal infections are largely asymptomatic?
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Dermatophytosis
Histoplasmosis |
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What fungus forms microaleurispore?
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Histoplasma
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What fungus is identified by the formations of tuberculate chlamydospores?
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Histoplasma
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What is unique about the structure of candidia?
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pseudohyphae: looks like true hyphae because its branched, but its just connected yeast.
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Appearance of germ tubes can be used to determine what type of infection?
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Candida albicans
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What fungus forms broad based budding yeast?
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Blastomyces
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Where is blastomyces found?
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SE US
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What is the parasitic form of cryptococcus? Saprophytic?
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Not dimorphic. Blastospore
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Why is prophylactic fluconazole given to AIDS patients?
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To prevent cryptococcus infections
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What two fungal infection are associated with birds?
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Histoplasmosis
Cryptococcosis |
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What infection was initially found only amoung spelunkers? Why?
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Histoplasmosis
Because its found in bat poop |
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What is unique about the appearance of aspergilli hyphae?
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Skinny branches.
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Which fungi are not dimorphic? Which are? Which one is weird?
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NOT: Zygomycoses, the dermatophytes, crypto and aspergilli.
Dimorphic: Coccidioides, sporothrix, Histoplasma, blastomyces. Weird: Candida (pseudohyphae branching yeast thing) |
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What fungus is not acquired from soil?
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Candida
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