Exam 5 Crossword Study Guide

Synonym for lacaziosis

Thermally dimorphic fungal genus with the greatest number of cases generally reported from the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri valleys. It's yeast's have refractive walls.

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

A compact, mass of hardened, dark hyphae, infecting the ovary of various grasses. It is capable of remining dormant until favorable conditions return.

The original source for synthesis of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)

This thermally dimorphic fungus' geograhic districution is restricted to South America where the majority of cases are diagnoes in Brazil, Venezuela, and Colombia.

The process of consuming Fungi

The genus Pneumocystis, formerly classified as a protozoan, was moved to kingdom fungi based on comparative analysis of 16S ribosomal

Aminata phalloides are also known as the death or destroying _____.

An empty cell which fragments or lyses, thereby liberating a conidium, i.e. an arthroconidium or aleurioconidium

Genus that contains etiologic agent of the mycosis commonly called caver's disease, aka spelunker's disease, aka Ohio Valley disease.

The life cycle of Pneymocystis includes an asexual _____ (feeding) form and a sexual cystic form.

Aminata _____ is known as the "fly agaric"

Without a doubt, Coccidiodes immitis is the _____ virulent of the pathogenic fungi.

Histoplasmosis in a mycosis most often presenting in a _____ pulmonary form.

Phylum containing Amanita, Lycoperdon.

A temperature dependent fungus (genus only) associated with caving.

This type of spore is formed when a relatively large cell (i.e. a spherule) undergoes progessive internal cleavage.

This common opportunistic infection in persons with HIV is an interstitial pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis jurovecii and it is nicknamed _____.

This cosmopoliton genu–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 hypae, and closely resembles Coccidiodes in Vitro but this genus is monomorphic.

Histoplasma capsulatuk is endemic in the Mississippi and Ohio _____ valleys.

Stages and terminology in the genus Pneumocystis are based on zoological terms, because Pneumocystis was classified as a _____ from its discovery in 1909 until 1992.

A 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 fungi.

Genus associated with estrogenic mycotoxicosis.

Mycotoxins implicated in alimentary toxic aleukia

Lobomycosis is a subcutaneous mycosis endemic in South america and central america in Humans and _____.

Genus widely called the "Magic Mushrooms"

The multiple "satellite" budding yeasts commonly formed at 37ºC on rich media by Paracoccidiodes brasiliensis are nicknamed _____ (Sailship) wheels.

This genus and species produces chains of darkly pigmented, spheroidal, large, e.g. 9-12 µm in diameter, yeast-like organisms in tissue. However, it has not yet been cultured in vitro.

The aflatoxin B1, produced, for example, by Aspergillus flavus growing on stored peanuts, maize, and sorghum, is a potent ____-carcinogen

Paracoccidioidomycosis is a chronic illness, acquired by inhalation generally, although also thought to result possible from the use of ____ to clean teeth.