Disease
Synonym or Brief Description
Important Etiological
Agents
SUBCUTANEOUS AND SYSTEMIC FUNGUS INFECTIONS
Infection of lungs, other
Nocardiosis
NocardIa asteroids
[actuallyclassified as
organs, and lower
bacteria, but cause
extremities (Madura foot)
fungus-like infections]
N. brasIlIensIs
Chromoblastomycosis Warty nodules or vegetations of skin
Cladosporium carrionii
and subcutaneous tissues
Fonsecaea pedrosoi
Ulcers of skin and underlying
Sporotrichosis
Phialophora verrucosa
tissues and gumma-like
Sporot schenkii
swelling of regional lymph nodes.
Inflamatory lesions of the skin, lungs,
Blastomycosis
Blastomyces dermatltidis
or bones.
Self-limited respiratory disease or
Coccidioidomycosis
Coccidioides immitis
chronic progresssive infection of
various organs
Histoplasma capsulatum
Fungus infection of the lungs,
Histoplasmosis
with fever; anemia; loss of weight,
enlargement of lymph nodes, liver,
spleen
Cryptococcus noeformans
Systemic fungus infection of
Cryptococcosis
lungs or meninges
Table 2-6. Common fungus diseases (concluded)
b. Diseases caused by fungi are collectively called mycoses (singular, mycosis).
They are divided into four general categories on the basis of the primary tissue affected
by the pathogen:
(1)
Superficial mycoses are infections limited to the hair and dead layers of
the skin.
(2) Cutaneous mycoses (dermatophytoses or ringworm) affect only the skin,
(3) Subcutaneous mycoses affect the subcutaneous tissue below the skin
and occasionally bone.
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