test 1 - pathology of tuberculosis and fungal diseases

Question 1

waxy wall Ag, patient develops antimicrobial, cell mediated immunity resulting in hypersensitivity to tuberculosis Ag

Answer 1

tuberculosis

Question 2

ghon lesion - single or multiple subpleural focus

Answer 2

primary pulmonary tuberculosis

Question 3

initially little fibrosis, later there is caseative necrosis and clacifications

Answer 3

tuberculosis

Question 4

lunges studded with miliary tubercles (mostly monocytes(

Answer 4

primary disseminated tuberculosis

Question 5

subsequent exposure or reactivation of healed lung lesion

Answer 5

post primary tuberculosis

Question 6

opportunistic infection of immunocompromised patients (AIDS)
25% fatal
lungs massively consolidated

Answer 6

pneumocystic carinii

Question 7

caused by inhalation of aspergillus fumigatus

2nd most common immunocompromised infection for patients

Answer 7

aspergillosis of the lung

Question 8

caused by histoplasma capsulatum via respiratory route

endemic in mississippi and ohio river valleys

Answer 8

histoplasmosis

Question 9

caused by inhalation of coccidiodes immitis

fever, cough, residual pulmonary nodule

Answer 9

coccidomycosis

Question 10

caused by inhalation of blastomyces

found in central necrosis and caseation

Answer 10

blastomycosis