Flashcards
Fungi Week 7
Cards in this deck (18)
- 1PlantsEukaryotic
Autotrophic - 2FungiEukaryotic
- 3AnimalsHeterotrophic
- 4ProtozoaEukaryotic
- 5BacteriaProkaryotic
- 6Fungi1.5 million species
- 7YeastsCandida albicans
- 8Fungal PathogeneicityPhysiological Barriers
Human Body temperature
Tissue Redox potential
nonspecific host defences
Surface secretions
Endogenous Flora
mechnical barriers
Non-specific immunity
Complement and other soluble components of immune system - 9Opportunistic Fungal infections37 degrees tissue redox potential
non specific host defences
host immune system - 10ZygomycetesPin or bread moulds
Fast growing, cosmopolitan
Asexual reproduction by sporangiospores formed in sporangia - 11Treatment options for OnychomycostesTopical treatment only successful in combination with surfical removal or oral therapy
Terbinafine - 12Anthropophillic DermatophytesObligate human parasites
unique survival an dissemination system adapted to human life styles - 13BasidiomycotaSaprobes, parasites, especially of plants
Septate hyphae with complex pores and clamp connections
Sexual reproduction by basidiospores, usually produced exogenously on a basidum - 14FungiFungi are not plants, bacteria or animals
They can be divided into different kingdoms and phyla
There are lots of different fungi - 15Fungi found in 3 kingdomsProtozoa - Myxomycota
Chromista - Oomycota
Eumycota - Ascomycota - 16Fungi appearanceStructures
Spores
Hyphae - 17DermatophytesUnique enzyme abiltiy - keratinase
Colonize stratum corneum - no living cells invaded - 18YeastCandida albicans
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- Immunology Flashcards on Fungi Week 7, created by Paras Chrysostomou on 01/11/2016.
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- Paras Chrysostomou · Nov 2016
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- Nov 2, 2016
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