Usmle Micro Fungi And Parasites

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2 diseases transmitted by inhalation of asexual spores

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Coccidioidomycosis
histoplasmosis

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Budding yeast with pseudohyphae in culture at 20C, germ tube formation at 37

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Candida albicans

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Diseases caused by candida albicans

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Thrush
endocarditis in IV drug users
vaginitis post antibiotic
diaper rash

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DOC candida albicans

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Nystatin-superficial infection
Amphotericin B-systemic

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Southern US, Cali, San Joaguin Valley

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Coccidioidomycosis

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Mississippi and Ohio river valleys

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Histoplasmosis

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spherule filled with endospores

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Coccidioidomycosis

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Bird or bat droppings; intracellular, "Captain's wheel" appearance

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Histoplasmosis

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Rural Latin America

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Paracoccidiodomycosis

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States east of Mississippi River and Central America

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Blastmycosis

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Big, Broad-Based Budding

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Blastomycosis

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5 dimorphic fungi

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1. Candida albicans
2. Coccidiodomycosis
3. Histoplasmosis
4. Paracoccidioidomycosis
5. Blastomycosis

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What shape are dimorphic fungi
in soil?
in tissue?
exception?

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Cold=Mold
Heat=Yeast

coccidioidomycosis is a spherule in tissue

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DOC for systemic mycoses

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Fluconazole or ketoconazole -local
amphotericin B - systemic

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Disease caused by Malassezia furfur

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Tinea versicolor

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DOC tinea versicolor

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topical miconazole, selenium sulfide (selsun)

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Hypopigmented skin lesions, occurs in hot,humid weather

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Tinea versicolor

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Disease caused by cladosporium werneckii

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Tinea nigra

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DOC tinea nigra

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salicyclic acid

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What organisms cause tinea pedis, tinea cruris, tinea corporis, tinea capitis

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Dermatophytes (microsporum, trichophyton, epidermophyton)

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Diagnosis of tinea pedis

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mold hyphae in KOH prep, not dimorphic

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pruritic lesions with central clearing resembling a ring

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tinea pedis, cruris, corporis, capitis

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india ink

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cryptococcus neoformans

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Opportunistic funal infections (4)

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1. candida
2. aspergillus fumigatus
3. c. neoformans
4. mucor and rhizopus

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yeast that causes diffuse interstitial pneumonia, id by methenamine silver stain

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Pneumocystis

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Mold with irregular nonseptate hyphae branching at wide angles. Causes rhinocerebral, frontal lobe absesses

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Murcormycosis

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diseases caused by aspergillus fumigatus

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1. allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
2. aspergilloma (lung)
3. invasive aspergillosis

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mold with septate hyphate that branch at a v-shaped angle. Causes lung disease

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Aspergillus fumigatus

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rose gardeners disease

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sporothrix schenckii

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Brain cysts, seizures

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Taenia solium

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liver cysts,

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echinococcus granulosus (tapeworm)

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B12 deficicency

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Diphyllobothrium latum (fish tapeworm)

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Biliary tract disease

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Clonorchis sinensis (fluke)

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Hemoptysis

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Paragonimus westermani (fluke)

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Portal HTN

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schistosoma mansoni (fluke)

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Hematuria, bladder cancer

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Schistosoma haematobium (fluke)

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Microcytic anemia

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Ancylostoma (hookworm), Necator

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Perianal pruritis

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Enterobius (pinworm)

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Organism causing Chagas, African sleeping sickness

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Trypanosma

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Organism causing syphilis

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Treponema pallidum

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parasitic causes of diarrhea

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Bloody - entamoeba histolytica + giardia
non-bloody: cyclospora, cryptosporidium

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diarrhea in an AIDS pt

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cryptosporidium

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worm wanders across eye, calabar swellings

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loa loa

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deerly transmission

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loa loa

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DOC loa loa and W.bancrofti

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DEC

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flying saucer fungus

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pneumocystis

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DOC PCP

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trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole
pentamidine

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sandfly

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leishmania

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african trypansome

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tsete fly
african sleeping skickness

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ascaris lumbricoides

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roundworm
long, white
oral-fecal

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High Eosinophilia

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strongyloides stercoralis

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Anemia, pneumonia, eosinophilia

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Hookworm: ancylostoma duodenale, necator americanus

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raw pork

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trichinella spiralis

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periorbital edema, fever, myosities, rash

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trichinella spiralis (raw pork)

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urticaria on butt and thighs

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strongyloides stercoralis

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trichuris trichiura

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whipworm
eggs hatch in SI and localize in lower intestine

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river blindness

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onchocerca volvulus

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elephantiasis

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Wuchereria bancrofti

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taenia solium

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pork tapeworm --> cysticercosis

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leading cause of seizures in Mexico

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taenia solium (pork tapeworm)

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taenia saginata

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beef tapeworm

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echinococcus

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sheep, anaphylaxis