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Germ Tube |
*tube-like outgrowth from a yeast cell *parallel sides *nonseptate *no constriction at point of attachment *formed w/in 3 hrs *used to id candida albicans |
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Candida albicans |
*candidiasis *acute, subacute or chronic |
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Candidiasis in HIV patients |
*primarily mucosal *thrush |
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Candidiasis in other immunosuppressed patients |
*UTI *Osteoartricular *endophthalmitis *Peritonitis *Endocarditis *meningitis |
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Candida albican microscopic |
*pseudohyphae *clusters of round blastoconidia *lg, thick-walled terminal chlamydospores *germ tube + |
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Candida tropicalis |
*blastoconidia singly or in very small groups *a few teardrop shaped chlamydospores |
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Candida parapsilosis |
*occassionallarge hyphal elements called 'giant cells' *crooked or curved, relatively short pseudohyphae |
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Candida krusei |
*pseudohyphae w/ elongate blastoconidia *cross-matchsticks or tree-like appearance |
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Candida guilliermondi |
*forms sm yeast cells *few pseudohyphae *small clusters of blastoconidia at the septa |
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Candida (torulopsis) glabrata |
*lungs, kidneys, fungemia *NO pseudohypae *small, round to oval, single terminal budding, nonencapsulated cells |
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Cryptococcus neoformans |
*most freq involving the CNS *produces dark brown colonies on birdseed agar *usually no hyphae seen *may be encapsulated *urease/caffeic acid + |
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Rhodotorula spp |
*usually pink to coral *faint capsule sometimes formed
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Geotrichum candidum |
*geotrichosis *germinates from one corner *coarse, true hypae |