FUNGI AS ANIMAL PARASITE

fungi pass resistance
barriers

inhalation

trauma

ingestion

spread through body

not remain localise

via inhalation

Pulmonary Blastomycosis

Spore enter lung, convert to yeast forms and
multiply

Treatment: Itraconazol

Chromoblastomycosis and Phaeohyphomycosis

Mycetomass

Sporotrichosi

Toxicosis:

Mycotoxicoses

An intracellular parasite

airborne

aspergillus

candida

cryptococcus

mucor

Pneumocystis

Normal inhabitant of human skin

Pityriasis – chronic infections of
M. furfu

Clinical

parental history

  districtive mycelial growth

Laboratory cultures

using Sabouraud dextrose agar

Serological testing

antibody antigen

Trie fungi pathogen

Dimorphic fungi

blastomycete dermatitis

coicedeides immitis

histoplasma capsulatom

Opportunistic fungi

lack protein and genetic characteristric

microsporum

epidermophyton

on hot land

Windstorm or earthquakes

Can be transmitted from host to host

Painful ulcerated gums, tongue, lips

Treatment with Amphotericin B

superficial infection that forms
nodules on hair shafts

thru shared hair brushes,

Only grow on skin, nails and hair

Tinea Unguium

3 genera of ascomycetes
–  Trichophyton sp.
–  Microsporum sp.
–  Epidermophyton floccosum