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| conidia formed along the ends and sides of irregular club-‐shaped conidiophores |
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| the male gametangium, i.e. the organ in which are generated the gametic nuclei in the ascomycetes |
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| a fungus that preferentially infects humans instead of other higher animals |
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| a type of conidium that is characterized by the conversion of a preexisting hyphal element of determinant growth |
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| the female gametangium in ascomycetes |
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| a sexual haploid spore that is formed in the interior of an ascus, usually as the result of meiosis |
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| a fungal ball generally found in a preformed cavity of the lung, composed of a mass of Aspergillus hyphae |
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| a sexual spore typical of the basidiomycetes, formed on the exterior of a basidium |
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| crackling sound made by popping open of small airways and alveoli |
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| a type of sexuality in which the compatibility factors are one of only two classes |
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| conidia produced by budding from a vesicle that terminates an aerial hyphae |
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| mixture of CuSO4 and lime used to prevent downy mildew on grapes |
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| immune response that does not involve antibodies, but rather involves the activation of phagocytes, antigen-‐specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes, and the release of various cytokines in response to an antigen |
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| a small, spheroidal structure (~20-‐40nm dia.) present in many fungi, which contains chitin synthase that is involved in cell wall synthesis |
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| asexually-‐derived survival spore; forms along hyphae (thallic), similar to arthroconidia but primary purpose is survival, not reproduction |
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| relating to a thallus whose nuclei are contained in a continuous cytoplasm, without being separated by cross-‐walls |
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| asexually-‐produced fungal spores |
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| ability of a fungus to grow in either yeast or mycelium form depending on the conditions it encounters |
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| native to a particular region; found exclusively in one place |
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| asexual spores produced via nuclear division and segmentation, e.g. within a spherule as in Coccidioides spp. |
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| a sterol found in cell membranes of fungi and protozoa, serving many of the same functions that cholesterol serves in animal cells. |
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| able to kill or destroy fungal cells |
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| able to inhibit sporulation or growth of a fungus without killing |
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| a fungus that preferentially inhabits the soil |
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| the excrement of birds or bats |
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| self-‐sterile; a fungus that must outcross for sexual reproduction to occur |
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| lymphadenopathy enlargement of mediastinal lymph nodes and is most commonly identified by a chest x-‐ray |
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| self-‐fertile; a fungus that is capable of mating with itself |
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| hyphae tubular filament that represents the structural entity of the majority of fungi |
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| genes that reside at the same locus on different chromosomes, but are completely unrelated by DNA sequence |
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| the fusion of two nuclei to form a zygote nucleus |
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| inflammation of the cornea of the eye |
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| the entire mass of hyphae that constitutes the vegetative body of a fungus |
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| the presence of abnormally few neutrophils in the blood, leading to increased susceptibility to infection |
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| a fungus that is normally saprobic but is capable of causing disease in immunocompromised hosts |
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| the first phase of sexual reproduction in which two protoplasts fuse |
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| inflammation of the walls of the alveoli in the lungs |
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| a chain of easily disrupted fungal cells that is intermediate between a chain of budding cells and a true hypha, marked by constrictions rather than septa at the junctions |
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| respiratory sounds caused by secretions in the bronchial airways |
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| common, chronic, relapsing, inflammatory skin disorder of the scalp and other oily areas |
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| relating to a thallus whose nuclei are separated by cross-‐walls |
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| a globose, sporangium-‐like structure of Coccidioides that originates from the swelling and enlargement of inhaled arthrospores |
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| “apical body”; a granular or vesicular region of the cytoplasm that is rich in actin and participates in the synthesis of the hyphal cell wall |
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| a spore produced in a sporangium as in the zygomycetes |
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| refers to the sexual compatibility of the basidiomycetes, which have four groups of sex factors |
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| spores formed via the transformation of an existing hyphal branch where septal pores are plugged and septa are enzymatically degraded |
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| disease caused by Candida albicans characterized by the formation of white patches on mucous membranes of the oral cavity |
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| inflammation of the trachea and bronchi |
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| any of various small, single-‐celled fungi that reproduce by fission or budding |
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| a fungus that preferentially infects animals instead of humans |
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| a crawling-‐like type of movement accomplished by protrusion of cytoplasm of the cell involving the formation of pseudopodia |
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| protozoans that are parasitic in animals, especially animal bloodstreams, and are distinguished by a variety of organelles, including fibrils and microtubules, located at one end (called the apical end) of the cell |
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| reinfection by a parasite juvenile without its leaving the host |
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| a kind of symbiosis in which one symbiont, the commensal, is benefitted and the symbiont, the host, is neither helped nor harmed by the association |
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| a group of individual organisms which are virtually identical in appearance but nonetheless each satisfy the biological definition of a species -‐ that is, they are reproductively isolated from each other |
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| stage in a parasite life-‐cycle that offers resistance to unfavorable conditions |
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| host in which the parasite achieves sexual maturity |
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| Enzyme-‐linked Immunosorbent Assay |
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| a cell that divides (by meiosis) to form gametes |
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| being or characterized by a course of development in which one generation of parasites immediately succeeds another |
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| dormant exoerythrocytic form found in certain Plasmodium species |
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| host in which a parasite develops to some extent but not to sexual maturity |
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| “bad air”; an intermittent and remittent fever caused by a protozoan parasite that invades the red blood cells. |
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| daughter cell resulting from multiple mitoses and corresponding cytokineses |
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| type of symbiosis in which both host and symbiont benefit from the association |
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| mobile, elongated zygote of a Plasmodium or related organism |
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| deficiency of all three cellular components of the blood (red cells, white cells, and platelets) |
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| symbiosis in which the symbiont benefits from the association while the host is harmed in some way |
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| the branch of biology or medicine concerned with the study of parasitic organisms |
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| a sudden recurrence or attack of a disease; a sudden worsening of symptoms |
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| type of symbiosis in which the symbiont is mechanically carried about by the host; neither is physiologically dependent on the other |
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| infection with pinworms in which the eggs hatch on the anal skin and mucosa and the larvae migrate up the bowel to the cecum where they mature. |
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| symptoms of recent infection by Trypanosoma cruzi, consisting of edema of the orbit and swelling of the preauricular lymph node |
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| small surface invaginations that appear as stippling on the membrane of an erythrocyte infected with Plasmodium vivax after Romanovsky staining |
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| “head” or holdfast organ of a tapeworm |
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| daughter cell resulting from multiple fission of a zygote (sporogony) |
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| relating to or denoting certain diseases when contracted by wild animals, and the pathogens causing them |
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| active, feeding stage of a protozoan; vegetative stage |
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| swollen lymph nodes at the base of the skull, symptomatic of African sleeping sickness |
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| disease of animals that is transmissible to humans |
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