Mycology — Flashcards

What fungus is shown below? _____

_____ invades blood vessels, disseminating rapidly throughout the body

Hint: Which complication of Aspergillus fumigatus

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

_____ spreads in an ascend-ing pattern along the path of lymphatic drainage

Hint: which fungus

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

_____ is commonly found growing on heroin.IV injection of the drug can therefore lead to candidal endocarditis

Hint: which fungus

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

Hint: which fungus

_____ is endemic to the central and midwestern United States

Hint: what fungus

Candida albicans is in the _____ form with pseudo-hyphae formation at 20 degrees C

_____ does not change the vaginal pH

Hint: Candida albicans or Gardnerella vaginalis