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by zulhafiz shafiq 11 years ago

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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.

FUNGI AS   ANIMAL PARASITE

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