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