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world wide
normal HUMAN flora (GI, skin, oropharyngeal, vagina)
person-person, nosocomial, fomites |
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| GELATINOUS LESIONS when masses of yeast cause mucoid degeneration, making emboli in brain, spleen, kidneys |
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| GRANULOMAS contain yeast cells in leukocyte packed tissue. |
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causes mucocutaneous candidiasis (aka thrush)
presents with glossitis, stomatitis, cheilitis, perleche, vaginitis, balanitis, gastroenteritis, bronchitis |
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| Cutaneous ______ causes paronychia, diaper rash, onychomycosis, or candidal granulomas. |
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| systemic ________: fever, headache, myalgia, anorexia, arthralgia, uti, heart murmur, hepatosplenomegaly, hematuria, endocarditis, heart valve replacement, and meninigitis produced iatrogenically following prolonged use of antibiotics. associated with narcotic addiction. |
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| exudates of infected blood/tissues: chains of OVAL-TO-GLOBOSE BUDDING YEAST CELLS or PSEUDOHYPHAE |
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| Rhodotorulosis (Candida, Rhodotorula, Saccharomyces, and Schizosaccharomyces) |
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worldwide AIRBORNE CONTAMINANTS of skin, lungs, urine, and feces as normals HUMAN flora.
person-person,, contaminated needles, catheters, dialysis |
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| Rhodotorulosis (Candida, Rhodotorula, Saccharomyces, and Schizosaccharomyces) |
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| yeasts seeded into the blood = fungemia with toxic rxns from fermentation by-products |
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| Rhodotorulosis (Candida, Rhodotorula, Saccharomyces, and Schizosaccharomyces) |
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| FUNGAL PERITONITIS in patients with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis |
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| Rhodotorulosis (Candida, Rhodotorula, Saccharomyces, and Schizosaccharomyces) |
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shock with fungemia.
fever, hypotension, tachycardia, endocarditis, meningitis, chills
Fatal infections with lungs, kidneys, heart, CNS |
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| Rhodotorulosis (Candida, Rhodotorula, Saccharomyces, and Schizosaccharomyces) |
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| PAS shows individual sperical to elongate, budding, non-encapsulated yeast-like cells |
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| causes pneumocystosis: fever, chills, non-productive cough, chest pain, congestion, anorexia, sob, weight loss, interstitial plasma cell pneumonia |
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worldwide
normal HUMAN flora and RODENTS
person-person and inhalation of aerosols |
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| thick walled, crescent shaped cysts with many internal bodies |
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multily in lung tissue evokes mononuclear cell infiltrate in alveolar septa. reduces oxygen exchange.
consolidation of the lungs |
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| Protective immunity (cell-mediated) in immunocompetent |
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| Cryptococcus neoformans and gattii |
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worldwide in pigeon dung
inhalation of blastospores from soil and bird droppings |
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| Cryptococcus neoformans and gattii |
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| CSF/exudate: globose yeast cells with thick, polysaccharide capsules forming halos around cells. |
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| Cryptococcus neoformans and gattii |
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| partial protective immunity |
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| Cryptococcus neoformans and gattii |
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| CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDES inhibit development of cell-mediated immunity. Activate complement results in depletion of complement. |
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| Cryptococcus neoformans and gattii |
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| slow resolution, ending with walled-off granuloma remaining in tissue |
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| Cryptococcus neoformans and gattii |
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| CNS (meningoencephalitis) is most frequently diagnosed form. Gradual onset head ache, fever, n/v, lethargy, nuchal rigidity, photophobia, neck tenderness |
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| presents as papules, pustules, ulcers, and abscesses |
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| swelling and pain in bones |
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| Cryptococcus neoformans and gattii |
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| can cause mucocutaneous lesions, disseminated disease, osseous cryptococcosis, and cutaneous crytpococcosis |
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| opportunistic and infects immunocompromised |
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| true pathogen associated with flowering eucalyptus tree |
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