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==<font color="purple">Blastomycosis</font>==
==<font color="purple">Blastomycosis</font>==
<FlashCard questions="6">
|q1=Describe the pathogenesis of a blastomycosis infection?
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*Respiratory infection
*Lesions start in the lungs
*Haematogenous dissemination
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*Can be found in lesions in the eyes, brain, bones, skin and genitalia
*'''''Respiratory infection'''''
*Fatal if not treated
*'''''Lesions start in the lungs'''''
*Skin lesions may ulcerate forming granulomatous nodules
*'''''Haematogenous dissemination'''''
|l1=Blastomycosis
*'''''Can be found in lesions in the eyes, brain, bones, skin and genitalia'''''
|q2=What do colonies look like on Blood agar?
*'''''Fatal if not treated'''''
|a2=
*'''''Skin lesions may ulcerate forming granulomatous nodules'''''
*Cream coloured
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*Waxy
*Crinkled
|l2=Blastomycosis
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|q3=What do colonies look like on Sabauraud's Dextrose agar?
*'''''Cream coloured'''''
|a3=
*'''''Waxy'''''
*Grey coloured
*'''''Crinkled'''''
*Moist
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*White cotton-like mycelium which turns tan, brown and then black
|l3=Blastomycosis
|q4=How would you diagnose an infection?
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|a4=
*'''''Grey coloured'''''
*Clinical signs
*'''''Moist'''''
*Complement fixation test
*'''''White cotton-like mycelium which turns tan, brown and then black'''''
*ELISA
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*Counterimmunoelectrophoresis
|l4=Blastomycosis
|q5=How would you treat an infection?
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|a5=
*'''''Clinical signs'''''
*Amphotericin B
*'''''Complement fixation test'''''
*Imidazoles
*'''''ELISA'''''
|l5=Blastomycosis
*'''''Counterimmunoelectrophoresis'''''
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*'''''Amphotericin B'''''
*'''''Imidazoles'''''
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==<font color="purple">Coccidioidomycosis</font>==
==<font color="purple">Coccidioidomycosis</font>==