Difference between revisions of "Respiratory Fungal Infections - Pathology"

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 [[Cryptococcosis]]
 ===[[Blastomycosis]]===
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 ===[[Histoplasmosis]]===
-===[[Fungi|''Pneumocystis carinii'']]===
+''[[Pneumocystis carinii]]''
-*Important cause of pneumonia in humans associated with immunodeficiency states
-*It has been occasionally reported in young or immunosuppressed animals (e.g. Arabian foals with congenital immunodeficiency)
-*Grossly:
-**Diffuse [[Lungs Inflammatory - Pathology#Interstitial pneumonia|interstitial]] [[Lungs Inflammatory - Pathology#Infectious causes of pneumonia|pneumonia]]
-**Patches of firmness or consolidation
-*Histologically:
-**Alveoli are filled with pale staining acidophilic material (= trophozoite and cyst forms of the organism)
-*It is thought that as P. carinii is often present as a latent infection, alveolar macrophages normally control the organism - a process which fails in immunodeficient states