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| 4 examples of superficial mycoses |
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| tinea versicolor, tinea nigra, black piedra, white piedra |
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| significance of superficial mycoses |
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| infections are only troublesome, not serious |
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| cutaneous mycoses caused by: |
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| description of cutaneous mycoses |
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| filamentous fungi (moulds) theat live in all fully keratinized tissues; do not usually penetrate beneath epiderm |
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| 3 genera of dermatophytes |
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| microsporum, trichophyton, epidermophyton |
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| growth/sporulation within hair shaft |
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| growth/sporulation around hair shaft |
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| kerion (suppurative folliculitis) |
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| big circular lesion so f smooth skin |
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| treatment for dermatophytes |
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acute: desenex, tinactin
chronic: topical azoles |
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| lab ID methods for dermatophytes |
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1) collect skin/hair/nails
2) KOH prep for microscopy
3) culture on Sabourad dextrose agar or dermatophyte test media |
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Macroconidia: abundant, club-shaped, thick-walled, smooth, arranged in groups
Microconidia: absent |
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Macroconidia: usually abundant, spindle-shaped, thick-walled, rough
Microconidia: scarce, elongate |
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Macroconidia: scarce, club-shaped, smooth, thin-walled
Microconidia: abundant, sperical/elongate/pear-shaped |
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| sporotrichosis, chromomycosis, eumycotic mycetoma, phaeohyphomycosis |
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| puncture wound followed by painless papules after 1-3 weeks, then spread distally along lymphatic channels |
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| lymphocutaneous disease (sporotrichosis) |
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| rar but very serious form found in immunosuppressed |
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| sporotrichosis etiologic agent |
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dimorphic fungus
tissue phase: cigar-shaped yeasts
mould phase: pyriform (means pear-shaped you twit) conidia in rosette clusters; turn white-to-black |
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| yeast forms surrounded by eosinophilic halo |
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| asteroid bodies, represent deposition of Ag/Ab complexes; sporotrichosis |
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| infection of skin with painless, cauliflower-like lesions |
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| etiologic agent of chromomycosis |
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| slow growing dematiaceous (black) fungi; fonsecaea, cladosporium, exophiala, wangiella, phialophora |
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| brown segmented hyphal forms seen in infected tissues |
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| Sclerotic bodies, diagnostic of chromomycosis |
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| soil implantation --> spreads through skin as far as bone --> forms granulomas and abscesses that drain into sinus tracts |
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| eumycotic mycetoma; madura mycosis |
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| eumycotic mycetoma etilogic agents |
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| pseudallescheria boydii, madurella mycetomatis |
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| "grains" found in sinus tract drainage; mouse-gray,lollipop candida on microscope |
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| heterogenous array of fungal infections cuased by dematiaceous fungi commonly found in the environment |
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| present in tissues as pigmented irregular hyphal forms |
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| Subcutaneous disease presents as solitary cyst-like lesion secondary to traumatic implantation of contaminants |
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| etiologic agents of phaeohyphomycosis |
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| exophiala, wangiella, bipolaris |
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| treatment for phaeohyphamycosis |
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