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FUNGI AS ANIMAL PARASITE
The text explores the diverse roles fungi play as animal parasites, detailing various infections and their transmission methods. It delves into systemic mycoses, which spread through the body via inhalation, and cutaneous and subcutaneous mycoses, affecting skin, nails, and hair.
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FUNGI AS ANIMAL PARASITE Dermatophytoses 3 genera of ascomycetes
– Trichophyton sp.
– Microsporum sp.
– Epidermophyton floccosum
Only grow on skin, nails and hair Tinea Unguium Black Piedra and White Piedra thru shared hair brushes, superficial infection that forms
nodules on hair shafts Paracoccidioidomycosis Treatment with Amphotericin B Painful ulcerated gums, tongue, lips Coccidioidomycosis Can be transmitted from host to host Windstorm or earthquakes on hot land Fungal Agents Opportunistic fungi lack protein and genetic characteristric epidermophyton
microsporum
Trie fungi pathogen Dimorphic fungi histoplasma capsulatom
coicedeides immitis
blastomycete dermatitis
Diagnosis of fungal infection Serological testing antibody antigen Laboratory cultures using Sabouraud dextrose agar Clinical districtive mycelial growth parental history Malassezia Infections Pityriasis – chronic infections of
M. furfu Normal inhabitant of human skin by Oppurtinistic fungi Pneumocystis mucor cryptococcus candida aspergillus Histoplasmosis airborne An intracellular parasite Fungal Intoxication & Allergies Mycotoxicoses Toxicosis: Cutaneous and Subcutaneous Mycoses Sporotrichosi Mycetomass Chromoblastomycosis and Phaeohyphomycosis Blastomycosis Pulmonary Blastomycosis Treatment: Itraconazol Spore enter lung, convert to yeast forms and
multiply Systemic mycoses via inhalation not remain localise spread through body Mycoses fungi pass resistance
barriers
ingestion trauma inhalation
