Mycology — Flashcards

What fungus is shown below? _____

_____ invades blood vessels, disseminating rapidly throughout the body

Hint: Which complication of Aspergillus fumigatus

_____ is found mainly in pigeon droppings and soil

Hint: which fungus

_____ is 5-10 micrometers in diameter and its morphology can be described as narrow-based, with unequal budding.

Hint: which fungus

_____ hyphae are non-septated with wide-angled (90) branching

Hint: Which fungi's

_____ does not change the vaginal pH

Hint: Candida albicans or Gardnerella vaginalis

Ascending _____ and cigar-shaped yeast are classic manifestations of Sporothrix schenckii infection/sporotrichosis

Histoplasma, Blastomycosis and most* other systemic fungi are found in the _____ form in soil and the yeast* form in the body

_____ is endemic to the central and midwestern United States

Hint: what fungus

A _____ stain or culture gives physicians a definitive diagnosis in histoplasmosis, blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis (fungal infections)