MICROM 461 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sporotrichosis, Room Temperature, Histology
8 Apr 2020
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Microm 461 lecture 3: subcutaneous fungi, systemic fungi: subcutaneous fungi, fungi that infect subcutaneous tissue are inoculated via puncture wounds, causing chronic, localized lesions, sporothrix schenkii, a complex of several different species, called rose gardeners" disease . Infect subcutaneous tissue via puncture wound sporotrichosis. The round circles = cross sections of hyphae. 2: systemic fungi, fungi that can cause systemic illness in healthy people, are rare and are confined to specific geographic regions, primarily involve respiratory system. Infection occurs by inhalation of air borne conidia: most infections are self limiting and asymptomatic, typically, the infections are mild or asymptomatic but they may progress to acute or chronic pneumonia, even in otherwise healthy individuals. Most clinical labs don"t bother to make a slide culture if they suspect. Blastomyces because it"s just not useful: what is useful is growing the yeast form to observe the characteristic broad based budding yeast .
