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PHPR 3823 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tinea Corporis, Athlete'S Foot, Candida Albicans

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7 Mar 2022
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PHPR - Pharmacy Practice
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PHPR 3823
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Invasive fungal infections ubiquitous // found everywhere: soil, plants, water, in the body. Background: main purpose: degradation of organic matter saprobes: live on dead or decaying matter symbionts: live together, to mutual advantage commensals: live together, neither benefited nor harmed parasites: live together and one derives benefit. Spectrum of fungal disease allergy: hypersensitivity to fungal antigens: mycotoxicosis: ingestion of fungal toxin in foods or poisonous mushrooms, mycosis: invasion of living tissue can be superficial, sq (muscles. Infections: mold cause infection by invading keratinized tissues transmitted via direct contact. Risk factors: moist environment as reservoir: showers, locker rooms, soil, moist conditions: occlusive footwear skin folds confinement to bed. Tinea pedis childhood invade hair shaft scaling, erythema, inflammation, alopecia, itching. Terbinafine po qd x 6 wks + ketoconazole shampoo skin infection prominent edge, may contain pustules w/ less inflamed center, +/- itching: otc topical groin infection clustering in facilities scaling and irritation, otc topical antifungal antifungal.

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1. Identify the causative fungus of either a fungal eye infection or Pneumocystis pneumonia. Then: (a) Describe how the causative fungus infects the body. (b) Describe how the disease manifests as an illness (i.e., symptoms) and whether it can be lethal or not. If not lethal, describe how it harms the body. (c) Explain how the disease is typically treated and any drug(s) used. (d) Briefly describe how the drug(s) affect the fungal disease agent.

2. List five benefits that lichens provide to Earth ecosystems. Then explain how they do so by providing an example of each.

BIOL_101_BASIC MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

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Which of the following organisms are categorized as Macro organisms:

a- Human beings

b-Fungi

c-Bacteria

d-Algae

4. can be caused by inhaling fungal spores deposited in the feces of infected birds.

a-Malaria

b-Primary acute histoplasmosis

c-Asthma

d-Red blood cell rupture

9. Which of the following is a bacteria :

a. Amoeba

b. HIV

c. Staphylococcus

d. Yeast

10. Modern terminology for animalcules is:

a. Bacteria

b. Protozoa

c. Virus

d. Fungi

12. Biology means:

a-Study of organisms

b-Study of life

c-Study of Plants

d-Study of diseases.

13. is a nonliving super chemical that is a parasite of living cells:

a-Amoeba

b-HIV(Human immunodeficiency virus)

c-Roundworms

d-Larvae

14. Fungal infection refers to :

a-attack by large, grossly visible multicellular fungi

b-attack by yeast cells that are microscopic parasites

c-abnormal condition caused by a parasitic fungus.

d-abnormal condition of having hookworms.

For this assignment, do the following, using any RECENT resource, i.e., news about Fungi published within the last year:

3) Find an account of new information about any type of fungus that is somehow BENEFITING humans,

BE SURE to list the fungal species, the phylum to which it belongs, the specific type of effect it has, and, for the species other than human, name the species. The fungal species that you report do not have to be symbiotes, but it is perfectly acceptable to include symbiotes. Thus, each one of these four categories should be about a paragraph in length.

please DO NOT report on ANY of the folloeing fungal relationship: cheese, wine, beer making, soy sauce, bread, Mushrooms, morels, truffles or penicillin, lysergic acid, psilocybin, Ergotism or Diseases - In humans, athlete’s foot, “ringworm”, thrush, “yeast infection”, Histoplasmosis, and thses diseases in plants Dutch Elm disease, Chestnut Blight, corn smut, leaf rust.

Please include URL’s or relevant sources for all four postings, I would expect each will be a different article, so you should have at least four sources.