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rose-gardener's disease
Sporotrichosis
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Aflatoxins
Mycotoxins associated with liver cancer
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sclerototic bodies
choromoblastomycosis
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cryptococcosis
pulmonary infection following close contact to birds
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pityriasis
patches of hyperpigmented and depigmented skin on the trunk and arms
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trichophyton rubrum
infection of the hair, nail, and skin
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psilocybe cubensis
produces a hallucinogenic toxin
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amanita phalloides
mycetismus
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claviceps purpurea
produces a toxin that is used to treat migraine headaches
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T/F: griseofulvin is an effective antifungal with no serious side effects
true
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T/F: dermatophytes, which live on the surface of the skin, are always pathogenic
false
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T/F: fungi that cause systemic mycoses are uniformly acquired by ingesting contaminated food
false
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T/F: the seriousness of coccidioides infection can be attributed to the formation and rupture of spherules
true
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T/F: in endemic regions of the united states, close to 90% of the population test postive for histoplasma capsulatum
true
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T/F: hypersensitivity to aspergillosis is due to the formation of ball-like fungal hyphae in the cavities produced by previous TB
false
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T/F: histoplasma and coccidioides produce filtrates on the lungs that can be seen on X-ray images
true
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very few cases of cryptococcal infections are caused by the variant cryptococcus neoformans
false
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severe mycetismus may require a liver transplant
true
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vaccines to prevent fungal infection are widely available
false
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most fungi exist as _____ and function as the major decomposers of organic material
saprobes
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infections with _____ are commonly acquired by person-to-person contact
dermatophytes
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diagnosis of fungi may require culturing them at different temperatures to demonstrate their
dimorphic
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______ dissolves keratin and cellular material in skin scrapings, leaving only the fungal cells for examination
potassium hydroxide
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fungal cells can be stained black in tissue sections by using ______ stain
gomori methenamine silver
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instead of cholestrol, the walls of fungi contain _______.
ergosterol
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the "gold standard" of antifungal agents is
amphotericin B
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the antifungal agent ______ interfers with microtibles formation and chromosomes seperation
griseofulvin
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the presence of ______ in a sample from the lungs is a diagnostic for coccidioidomycoisis
spherules
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histoplasma ______ is limited to Africa
duboisii
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the production of distinctively spiny spores is diagnostic for ________.
histoplasma capsulatum
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exposure to _______ species most commonly cause only allergies
Aspergillus
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______ can be diagnosed when clusters of budding yeast and branching pseudohyphae are present along with correlated symptoms
candidiasis
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opportunistic infection with ______ may develop into a series of nodular, pus-filled lesions on a limb
sporothrix schenckii
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chronic infections of malassezia furfur result in ________.
pityriasis
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