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Name: Section: CUTANEOUS MYCOSES CAUSATIVE AGENT DISEASE MODES OF CLINICAL FINDINGS TREATEMENT PREVENTION TRANSMISSION Dermatophytes Tinea Capitis Human to Human,...

Name: Section: CUTANEOUS MYCOSES CAUSATIVE AGENT DISEASE MODES OF CLINICAL FINDINGS TREATEMENT PREVENTION TRANSMISSION Dermatophytes Tinea Capitis Human to Human, Grow only in superficial, Miconazole, Skin should be kept dry Tinea Cruris animal to human by cornified layer of skin; clotrimazole, tolnaftate, and cool Tinea Pedis direct contact. do not invade Oral Griseofulvin Tinea Unguium underlying tissue; Contact wit infected infection enhanced by hair and epidermal cell. moisture and warmth. Malassezia Furfur Tinea Versicolor Skin scales Hypopigmented areas, Miconazole Not uses skin product scaling and itching that are oily. infection is Stay out of hot and asymptomatic, occurs humid weather. more frequently during Let your skin dry and hot, humid weather, cool. Cladosporium Tinea Nigra During Skin Injury Brownish spot due to Salicylic Acid Protect your skin. Werneckii melanin-like pigment in Wear shoes if you’ll be hyphae; black to brown walking in the hot and macules which occurs humid weather. on the palms of the hands, lesions are non- inflammatory SUBCUTAENOUS MYCOSES CAUSATIVE AGENT DISEASE MODES OF CLINICAL FINDINGS TREATEMENT PREVENTION TRANSMISSION Sporothrix Schenckii Sporotricosis Traumatic penetration Thermally dimorphic. Potassium iodide, Skin should be of skin. Local abscess or ulcer Ketoconazole protected when with nodules in draining gardening. lymphatics. Phialophora, Chromomycosis Trauma to skin Wart-like lesion with Flucytosine Not to walk bare foot in Cladosporium Species crusting abscesses along Thiabendazole plus local areas where infection lymphatic (Legs and surgery has been detected. feet) SYSTEMIC MYCOSES CAUSATIVE AGENT DISEASE MODES OF CLINICAL FINDINGS TREATEMENT PREVENTION TRANSMISSION Histoplasma Histoplasmosis Inhalation of fungal Spores enter lungs > Amphotericin B Minimize exposure to Capsulatum spores. differentiate into yeast > Ketoconazole dust. ingested by alveolar Use mask for macrophages > protection. granuloma Coccidioides Immitis Coccidioidomycosis Inhalation of fungal Influenza-like illness Amphotericin B Avoid some outdoor spores. with fever and cough. Ketoconazole areas; such as Characterize by construction areas. Stay thermally dimorphic inside after dust storm. Blastomyces Blastomycosis Inhalation of fungal Asymptomatic infection Ketoconazole Dermatitidis spores. mainly via the Avoid being exposed to respiratory tract; the fungus that may dissemination may caused blastomycosis in result in ulcerated areas where it is granuloma of skin, bone common in the and other sites, environment. Paracoccidioides Paracoccidioidomycosis Inhalation of fungal Cough Ketoconazole Brasiliensis spores. Dyspnea Wear simple mask that Malaise help block these spores Fever from entering the Weightloss mouth to lungs. OPPORTUNISTIC MYCOSES CAUSATIVE AGENT DISEASE MODES OF CLINICAL FINDINGS TREATEMENT PREVENTION TRANSMISSION Candida Albicans Oral thrush No to person to person Nystatin. Oral hygiene. Vaginitis transmission. Whitish plaque on Miconazole. Practice safe sex. Sexual Contact. mucous membrane and Normal Flora of mucus vagina. membrane. Aspergilus Fumigatus Aspergilosis Inhalation of fungal Invades blood vessel > Amphotericin B Avoid activities that spores. thrombosis and Steroid Theraphy. involved close contact infarction > to soil or dust. aspergilloma (fungus ball) Cryptoccus Neoformans Cryptococcal Meningitis Inhalation of fungal Influenza-like illness or Amphotericin B Patient who test spores. pneumonia, spread to Plus Flucytosine positive for cryptococcal blood stream and antigen can take anti- meningitis. fungal medicine. Mucor and Rhizopus Sp. Mucormycosis Inhalation of fungal Caused disease Amphotericin B Avoid infected water. spores. primarily in diabetic and And Surgical Stay away from areas leukemic patients. debridement. with a lot of dust or soil. Nose and sinuses are typically involved.