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Mycology Mode of Transmission and Geography
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Medical
Graduate
04/05/2013

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Term
Malassezia furfur
Definition
person-to-person; worldwide
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Hortaea werneckii
Definition
traumatic innoculation; tropical/subtropical
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Epidermophyton floccosum
Definition
person-to-person; worldwide
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Trichophyton tonsurans
Definition
person-to-person; worldwide
Term
Microsporum canis
Definition
person-to-person; worldwide
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Trichophyton mentagrophytes
Definition
person-to-person; worldwide
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Trichophyton rubrum
Definition
person-to-person; worldwide
Term
Trychophyton verrucosum
Definition
person-to-person; worldwide
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Sporothrix schenckii
Definition
traumatic innoculation; warm climates (forest work, mining, gardening)
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Chromoblastomycosis
Definition
traumatic innoculation; rural tropical (lack of protective footware)
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Eumycotic mycetoma
Definition
traumatic innoculation; tropical (males>females)
Term
Basidiobolus ranarum
Definition
traumatic innoculation; Middle East; Asia; Europe (males>females)
Term
Conidiobolus coronatus
Definition
inhalation; Latin America (males>females)
Term
Subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis
Definition
traumatic innoculation (feet)
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Histoplasma capsulatum
Definition
inhalation; US (midwest, east), Asia, Latin America, Africa (bird/bat droppings, caves, chicken coops, demolition, and urban renewal)
Term
Blastomyces dermatitidis
Definition
inhalation
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Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
Definition
inhalation; rural Central and South America along Amazon
Term
Coccidioides immitis
Definition
inhalation; California (bat/rodent droppings)
Term
Candida albicans
Definition
person-to-person; part of normal flora
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Cryptococcus neoformans
Definition
inhalation; worlwide (pigeon dropping-enriched soil)
Term
Aspergillus fumigatus
Definition
inhalation; worlwide (air, soil, hospitals, showerheads)
Term
Zygomycosis/Mucormycosis
Definition
inhalation, ingstion, wound contamination; worlwide (soil, decaying vegitation, hospital A/C)
Term
Pneumocystic jirovecii
Definition
inhalation; reservoir unknown
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Rhodotorula spp.
Definition
worldwide (central venous catheter, shower curtais, bath tubs, toothbrushes)
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