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| Mycoses - Fungal diseases |
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| Fungi are often resistant to ..... |
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| inhalation, trauma, or ingestion |
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| Most mycoses are not contagious except .... |
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| Dermatophytes (candida & pneumocystis |
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| List (4) pathogenic fungi |
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Blastomyces
Coccidiodes
Histoplasma
Paracoccidioides |
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| Factors for opportunistic mycoses |
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Invasive medical procedure
Medical therapies
Certain disease conditions
lifestyle factors |
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| Toxicoses - disease condition due to poisoning (eating mushrooms) |
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| T-cell mediated immune response |
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| What is more similar to human cell, fungi or bacteria? |
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| Antifungal drugs often target which part of fungi? |
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| ergosterol which is only produced by fungi(not found in humans and plant cells) |
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| is an antifungal drug treats Histoplasmosis, Blastomycosis, and Paracoccidioidomycosis |
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| Opportunistic fungal infections require 2 step treatment |
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High dose - reduces fungal pathogen
low dose - maintenance therapy |
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| Antifungal vaccines are difficult because |
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| fungal metabolism is similar to our own |
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| There are fungal vaccines for ? |
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Coccidioides
Candida
Blastomycosis |
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| Fungal infections usually begin as |
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| Histoplasmosis Capsulatum |
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| most common pathogenic fungi found in soil with high nitrogen levels, Eastern US, Africa, Asia |
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| Chronic pulmonary histoplasmosis |
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| Chronic cutaneous histoplasmosis |
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| Type I hypersensitivity to eyes |
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| pathogenic fungi found in soil with rich organic matter, in eastern US and Canada |
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| infection on skin, face, and upper body |
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| Osteoarticular Blastomycosis |
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| pathogenic fungi found in southwest US in desert soil, rodent burrows, remains, and mines |
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| pathogenic fungi found in US and Mexico affecting farm workers, causes chronic inflammatory disease |
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| antifungal drug used to treat Paracoccidioidomycosis |
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| (5) types of Opportunistic Fungi |
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Pneumosystis
Candida
Aspergillus
Crytococcus
Mucor |
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