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North American Blastomycosis/ Chicagos/ Gilchrists Disease Coccidioidomycosis a.k.a. Posadas Disease/ San Joaquin Valley Fever/ California disease/ desert rheumatism
Tissue form
Habitat
intraand Soil with bird or extra- cellular bat droppings yeast cells
Histopath features
Culture at RT
Culture at 37C
small, round to oval large tuberculate small, singleintra- and extra- macroconidia budding yeast cellular yeast cells and cells small microconidia thick-walled yeast cells (8-15 m) with single, broad-based bud thick-walled spherules (10-80 m) filled with nonbudding endospores (2-5 m) yeast cells (10-30 m) with multiple, narrow-based buds (characteristic) Pyriform conidia borne singly on sepatate hyphae Double-walled yeast cells with single broadbased bud Not routinely done
Blastomycoses dermatitidis
conidia
Coccidioides immitis
arthroconidia
spherule
hyphae bearing barrel-shaped arthroconidia (24 x 3-6 m) separated by dysjunctor cells septate hyphae with atypical pattern of separation
Paracoccidioidomycosis Paracoccidioides conidia a.k.a. South American brazillensis Blastomycosis/ LutzSplendore-Almeidas Disease Penicilliosis marneffei Penicillium marneffei conidia
yeast cells with Isolated from soil transverse in the burrows of septum bamboo rats
Conidiophores branch into metullae that support the phialides that bear chains of conidia, colonies produce diffusible red pigment (very characteristic)
BY: PINKYRED