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Opportunistic mycoses

Opportunistic mycoses. By. Dr. Emad AbdElhameed Morad. Lecturer of Medical Microbiology and Immunology. Aspergillus. Species. Aspergillus is present every where . It is a frequent laboratory contaminant. Species include: Aspergillus fumigatus (the most common human pathogen)

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Opportunistic mycoses

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  1. Opportunistic mycoses By Dr. Emad AbdElhameed Morad Lecturer of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

  2. Aspergillus

  3. Species • Aspergillus is present every where. • It is a frequent laboratory contaminant. • Species include: • Aspergillus fumigatus (the most common human pathogen) • Aspergillus flavus (produces aflatoxin) • Aspergillus niger • These fungi produce sexual sporescalled ascospores. So, they are ascomycetes.

  4. Morphology • It is a mold. • It is formed of hyphae which are: hyaline, septate, uniform in width and branch dichotomously.

  5. Hyphae produce: • Long conidiophore with terminal vesicle covered with either: • Layer of phialides that produce chains of microconidia(uniseriate). • Layer of metulae which bear the phialides that produce chains of microconidia(biseriate).

  6. Uniseriate structure

  7. Diseases • Mode of infection: inhalation • Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (asthma mediated by IgE). • Aspergilloma (fungus ball): the fungus enters preexisting lung cavityas in patients with tuberculosis. • Invasive aspergillosis: • Invasion of blood vesselsby hyphae producing bloody sputum. • May disseminate to other organs. • Aflatoxin consumption in contaminated peanuts may cause liver damage and liver cancer.

  8. IgE mediated asthma Aspergilloma

  9. Laboratory diagnosis • Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: • High level of IgE and IgG against aspergillus. • Increased level of eosinophils. • Skin test: intradermal injection of the patient with aspergillus fungus produces hotness, redness and edema in the injected area within 20 minutes. • Sputum examination and culture.

  10. Aspergilloma: • Chest X-ray. • Invasive aspergillosis: • Sputum examination and culture. • Positive circulating cell wall galactomannan.

  11. Sputum examination for aspergillus • Direct microscopic examination: • Reveal hyaline, septate hyphae with uniform width and branch dichotomously. • Culture: • On SDA with no cycloheximide and incubated at the room temperature. • Identification of the species is done by: • Colonial morphology. • Slide cultureto study the morphology of conidia.

  12. Colonial morphology A. fumigatus A. flavus A. niger

  13. Slide culture for aspergillus

  14. Does culture alone diagnose aspergillosis? • No, because aspergillus is present every where and may arise in culture as contaminant. • So, to confirm the diagnosis of aspergillosis: • Direct microscopicexamination of sputum should reveal hyaline septate hyphae branching dichotomously. • Repeated isolation of the fungusfrom the same patient.

  15. Treatment • Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: corticosteriods. • Aspergilloma: surgical removal. • Invasive aspergillosis: amphotericin B and itraconazole.

  16. Mucormycosis (Zygomycosis) (Phycomycosis)

  17. Causative fungus • Mucormycosis is caused by the following fungi: • Mucor • Rhizopus • Absidia • These fungi are saprophytic molds. • These fungi produce sexual sporescalled zygospores. So, they are called zygomycetes.

  18. Morphology • These fungi are molds. • They are formed of hyphae which are: wide, aseptate(coenocytic), irregular in width.

  19. Hyphae produce asexual sporescalled sporangiospores which are formed inside a sac called sporangium. Sporangiospores & sporangium

  20. Pathogenesis • Mucor and rhizopus produce disease in the following patients: • Patients with diabetic ketoacidosis. • Patients with leukemia or lymphoma. • Patients with Severe burns. • Patients under corticosteriods. • Hyphae invade the blood vesselscausing thrombosis followed by ischemia and necrosis.

  21. Diseases • Rhinocerebral mucormycosis. * Starts in the nasal mucosa then invades the orbit, sinuses and brain. • Pulmonary mucormycosis. • Contaminated wound dressing.

  22. Rhinocerebral mucormycosis

  23. Laboratory diagnosis • Specimen: biopsy from the lesion. • Direct microscopic examination:reveal hyphae which are wide, aseptate and with irregular width. • Culture: • On SDA with no cycloheximide and incubated at the room temperature. • Identification of the fungus is done by: • Colonial morphology: cottony colonies • Slide culture: to see the sporangiospores inside sporangium.

  24. Slide culture for mucormycosis

  25. Does culture alone diagnose mucormycosis? • No, because fungi causing mucormycosisarepresent every where and may arise in culture as contaminants. • So, to confirm the diagnosis of mucormycosis: • Direct microscopicexamination should reveal hyphae which are wide, aseptate and with irregular width. • Repeated isolation of the fungusfrom the same patient.

  26. Treatment • Amphotericin B + surgery

  27. Penicillium marnefeii Dimorphic

  28. It is present every where. • It produces disease only in immunocompromisedpatients like AIDS patients. • It is a dimorphic fungus: • At 37 degree:yeast cells that divide by transverse septum.

  29. At 25 degree: branching septate hyphae which produce: • Conidiophore which produces metulae which bear phialides that produce chains of microconidia.

  30. This fungus produces red pigment on culture.

  31. GOOD LUCK

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