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Horizontales
Synonym for lacaziosis.
Thermally dimorphic fungal genus with the greatest number of cases generally reported from Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri valleys, and its yeasts in infected tissue have refractive walls, budding on a broad base, and are large, e.g., 8-15 um in diameter.
The aflatoxin B1, produced, for example, by Aspergillus flavus growing on stored peanuts, maize and sorghum, is a potent __________ carcinogen.
Genus containing the 'ergot fungi'.
This fungal genus contains the species that was the major cause of death in European orphanages between 1950 and 1960 (post WWII).
A compact, mass of hardened, dark hyphae, infecting the ovary of various grasses, e.g., rye and wheat, capable of remaining dormant until favorable conditions return.
A common opportunistic infection in persons with HIV infection is an interstitial pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii and it is nicknamed ________.
The original source for synthesis of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).
This thermally dimorphic fungus's geographic distribution is restricted to South America where the majority of cases are diagnosed in Brazil, Venezuela, and Columbia.
The process of consuming fungi.
Amanita phalloides are also known as the death or destroying _________.
An empty cell which fragments or lyses, thereby liberating a conidium, e.g. an arthroconidium or aleurioconidium.
A temperature dependent fungus (genus only) associated with caving.
Amanita __________ is known as the "fly agaric."
Histoplasma capsulatum is endemic in the Mississippi and Ohio ______ valleys.
Verticales
Phylum containing Amanita, Lycoperdon
The genus Pneumocystis, formerly classified as a protozoan, was moved to Kingdom Fungi based on comparative analysis of 16S ribosomal _________.
Genus that contains etiologic agent of the mycosis commonly called caver's disease, aka spelunker's disease and aka Ohio Valley disease.
Histoplasmosis in a mycosis most often presenting in a __________ (harmless, not invasive) pulmonary form.
This type of spore is formed when a relatively large cell, e.g., a spherule, undergoes progressive internal cleavage.
This cosmopolitan genus, isolated from soil, animal dung, and decaying plant material, produces alternating arthroconidia which, at the time they are formed, are of the same width as the hyphae, and closely resembles Coccidioides in vitro, but this genus is monomorphic.
Without a doubt, Coccidioides immitis is the _________ virulent of the pathogenic fungi.
Stages and terminology in the genus Pneumocystis are based on zoological terms, because Pneumocystis was classified as a/an ____________________ from its discovery in 1909 until approximately 1992, when it was determined that Pneumocystis is a fungal genus!
Potent hepatocarcinogenic mycotoxin.
To speed the ID process and to reduce the risk of laboratory-acquired infection, most mycology laboratories use serodiagnosis method to ID highly virulent moulds via detection of ____________ in cell wall extracts of unknown fungus.
Genus associated with estrogenic mycotoxicosis.
The life cycle of Pneumocystis includes an asexual _________ (feeding) form and a sexual cystic form.
Mycotoxins implicated in alimentary toxic aleukia.
Subcutaneous mycosis endemic in South America and Central America in humans and _________, particularly found on the dorsal fin, head, and fluke (lobes of the tail).
Genus widely called the 'magic mushrooms'.
The multiple "satellite" budding yeasts commonly formed at 37°C on rich media by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis are nicknamed _________ wheels.
This genus's species loboi produces chains of darkly pigmented, spheroidal, large, e.g., 9-12 um in diameter, yeast-like organisms in tissue. However, it has not yet been cultured in vitro.
Paracoccidioidomycosis is a chronic illness, acquired by inhalation generally, although also thought to result possibly from the use of _________ to clean teeth.