Bio 251 -- Chapter 22 objectives

  1. What is the difference between a true and opportunistic fungus?
  2. What is a mycosis? How are they typically spread, and how are they diagnosed?
  3. Describe Histoplasma capsulatum and the disease that it causes.
  4. Describe the disease coccidioidomycosis and its cause.
  5. Describe the disease blastomycosis and its cause.
  6. Describe two fungi that cause cutaneous mycoses.
  7. What is a dermatophytosis? What causes them? How are they treated?
  8. Describe infections caused by Candida.
  9. Describe the disease cryptococcosis and its cause.
  10. Describe infections caused by Aspergillus.
  11. Describe infections caused by Actinomyces and how they are caused.