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Set 29 Fungi Flashcards

1
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What areas are effected by superficial fungi?

A

hair, outer epidermis, epidermis, dermis, mucous membrane, and nails

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Piedraia hortae:

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black piedra, hair

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Malassezia furfur:

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looks like spaghetti, pityriasis versicolor, outer epidermis

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4
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What fungi cause dermatophysis?

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microsporum, trichophyton, and epidermophyton

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5
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What is dermatophytosis?

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tinea or ringworm of the scalp(capitis), body(corpus), hand(manuum), feet(athlete’s foot), legs (crura), nails (unguium), and beard (berber)

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Candida albicans:

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candidiasis (yeast infection), moniliasis in children (thrush), browning of the nails

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What areas are effected by subcutaneous fungi?

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nodules below skin, large fungal tumors of limbs and extremities

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Sporothrix schenckii:

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sporotrichosis, pricked by a rose thorn

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9
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What can cause large fungal tumors of the limbs and extremities?

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pseudallescharia boydii and madeurella mycetomatis

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Coccidioides immitis:

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spore dust, coccidiodomycosis (San Joaquin Valley Fever)

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Blastomyces dermatitidis:

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inhaled, North American blastomycosis (chicago disease)

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histoplasma capsulatum:

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chicken coup cleaning, histoplasmosis (ohio valley fever)

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cryptococcus neoformans:

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pigeon roosts, cryptococcosis

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paracoccidiodes brasiliensis:

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skin, paracoccidiodomycosis (South American blastomycosis)

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Necrotic pneumonia:

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fungus balls in lungs, aspergillus fumigatus

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Trichuris trichuria:

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whipworm, fecal pollution of soil with eggs

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Ascaris lumbricoides:

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intestinal nematode, fecal polution of soil with eggs

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Enterobius vermicularis:

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pinworm, close contact, “scotch tape test”

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Necator americanus:

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hookworm, anemia, barefoot sand, fecal pollution of soil with eggs

20
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Ancylostoma duodenale:

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hookworm, fecal pollution of soil with eggs

21
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Strongloides stercoralis:

A

hookworm, may live free, fecal pollution of soil with eggs

22
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Trichinella spiralis:

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hookworm, pigs, wild mammals, consumption of meat containing larvae

23
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Wuchereria Bancrofti:

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humans, mosquitos, elephantitis

24
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Onchocerca volvulus:

A

river blindness, humans, black flies

25
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Loa loa:

A

humans, margrove fliers, deer flies

26
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dracunculus medinenesis:

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humans and cyclops (aquatic invertebrate)

27
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schistosoma japonicum, mansoni, and haematobium:

A

humans and snails, ingestion of fresh water containing larval stage

28
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opisthorchis sinensis:

A

humans, snails, and fish, consumption of fish

29
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paragonimus westermani:

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humans, mammals, snails, crabs, consumption of crabs

30
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Taenia Saginata:

A

humans, cattle, largest tapeworm, “sagging beef”, consumption of undercooked or raw beef

31
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Taenia Solium:

A

humans, swine “pork’s got sole”, consumption of undercooked or raw pork

32
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Hymenolepis nana:

A

dwarf, humans, tapeworm, consumption of undercooked meat

33
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Echinococcus granuloses:

A

humans, dogs, canine feces

34
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Diphyllobothrium latum:

A

humans, fish, “longest tapeworm”, causes B12 deficiency, consumption of raw or undercooked fish

35
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Entamoeba histilytica:

A

amebic dysentery, trophozite

36
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balantidium coli:

A

colitis, trophozoite

37
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naegleria fowleri:

A

primary acute meninioencephalitis, trophozoite

38
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giordia lamblia:

A

camper’s diarrhea, malabsorption, flagellates in stool, trophozoite

39
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Trichomoas vaginalis:

A

urethritis, vaginitis, trophozoite

40
Q

Pneumocystis carinii:

A

fungus, opportunisitc lung infection, trophozoite, lung, immunodepressed

41
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Plasmodium falciporum:

A

black water fever, malignant tertian malaria, anopheles, vector: mosquito

42
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Babesia microti:

A

bovis, babesiasis, similar to malaria in S/S and TX

43
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Trypanosoma rhodesiense, gambiense, brucei:

A

african sleeping sickness, vector: tse tse fly, deadly, rhodesiense is the most fatal and fast moving

44
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Trypanosoma Cruzi:

A

chagas disease, vector: reduviid bug, heart, esophagus, and colon (Mega)

45
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Leishmania donovani:

A

kala-azar 75-95%, fatal if untreated, increased pigmentation, splenomegaly, decrease bone marrow, vector: sand fly

46
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Leishmania tropica, mexicana, brasiliensis:

A

cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, vector: sand fly

47
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Toxoplasma gondii:

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CNS Dx, transplacental, toxoplasmosis, cat feces

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