Direct examination results can possibly save a patient\'s life with an a disease

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Direct examination results can possibly save a patient's life with an a disease. If a fungus was observed the physician can immediately begin treatment. Why is this important? A) Once diagnosed, mycotic diseases progresses rapidly. B) Most fungi require a long incubations period for growth. C) The immune response of the host will cause the fungal agent to convert to dimorphic forms thus rendering treatment difficult D) all of the above E) none of the above = identify Direct examination results can possibly save a patient's life with an acute disease. Detection of fungal elements in a patient's specimen may be accomplished using A) brain heart infusion agar with lactophenol cotton blue added. B) slide culture technique with KOH observations C) observations of topography and texture of the agent in the specimens D) Gram stain E) all of the above San Joaquin Valley Fever is diagnosed by the presence of the following in sputum specimens or lesions biopsies A) yellow or brown sclerotic bodies in the direct examination B) large, rough walled multicellular and spindle shaped macroconidia on the ends of hyphae C) bacillary forms which stain Acid Fast resembling mycobacterium species D) thick walled spherules containing endospores E) large capsular blastopores with India Ink North American Blastomycosis caused by _____ reveals the following upon direct examination of sputum pus or biopsies from lesions. A) Candida stellatoidea -elongated extensions of terminal or budding blastopores B) Coccidioides immitis-barrel shaped arthrospores C) Paracoccidioides brasiliensis-thick walled multiple budding yeast cells with narrow necks where the daughter cells attach D) neither of the above = identify _____ Production of uni-nucleate budding yeast-like cells on brain heart infusion agar with blood at 37 C and whitish cottony mycelia at room temperature is characteristic of A) Norcardia asteroids B) Saccharomyces cerevisiae C) Penicillin species D) Histoplasma capsulatum E) Aspergillus species Although many are non-specific and lack standardization, tests, such as late agglutination, immunodiffusion, complement fixation detect A) circulating fungal antigens in the patient's serum B) circulating fungal antibodies in the patient's serum C) circulating antibody-antigen complexes in the patient's blood D) all of the above E) neither of the above = identify_____ The following flesh fungi ivalued as food and grown specifically for this purpose A) Amanita phalloides B) Saccharomyces cerevisiae C) Psilocybe species D) Agaricus species E) none of the above = identify _____ Fungal elements are grown and maintained in their original juxtaposition, thus making it easier to morphologically identify the organisms using A) direct examination using lactophenol cotton blue B) culture at room temperature on Sabouraud's dextrose agar C) culture at room temperature on brain heart infusion agar with blood D) slide culture E) all of the above

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9. Most fungi require a long incubations period for growth.

Out of all the options, this is the most appropriate option. Because when the fungi is incubated for growth it takes about 4 weeks to grow.

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