Learning Objectives:Chapter 9c, Infectious and Parasitic Diseases II
At the completion of this unit, the student will be able to:
Classify fungal infections anatomically. Name the principal organisms in each class.
Name the most appropriate specimen to submit for fungal culture.
Describe the geographic locations of the principal dimorphic fungal infections.
Describe the histologic appearance of fungi in tissue, particularly with respect to aspergillosis, zygomycosis, cryptococcosis, candidiasis, histoplasmosis, and coccidioidomycosis.
Describe the life cycle of parasites with enough detail to know where prevention measures would have their most significant effect.
Describe the effects that metazoans (worms) have on the host.
Name the most common cause of fever in patients returning from the tropics.
Name the organism that causes the most deaths worldwide.
Be able to define the listed Keywords.
Be able to identify, from projected slides, each of the diseases/processes in the Supplemental Image Database.