Fungi, parasites, and remaining high-yield bugs matched to the disease they cause and one distinguishing feature.
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- Candida albicans
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Oral/vaginal thrush, esophageal infection; pseudohyphae with budding (gram-positive)- Aspergillus fumigatus
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Aspergillosis (respiratory infections, invasive); septate hyphae with acute-angle branching- Cryptococcus neoformans
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Cryptococcal meningitis, respiratory infection; polysaccharide capsule visible on India ink stain- Histoplasma capsulatum
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Histoplasmosis (respiratory); endemic to Ohio and Mississippi river valleys- Blastomyces dermatitidis
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Blastomycosis (respiratory, skin); endemic North America, broad-based budding yeast- Coccidioides immitis
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Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever); endemic to southwestern US, spherule with endospores- Pneumocystis jirovecii
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PCP (pneumonia in immunocompromised, especially AIDS CD4 < 200); visible on silver or GMS stain- Mucor and Rhizopus species
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Mucormycosis (angioinvasive, rapid progression); non-septate hyphae with right-angle branching- Candida auris
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Invasive candidiasis, multidrug resistance; emerging pathogen, poorly susceptible to azoles- Plasmodium falciparum
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Malaria (falciparum type); highest mortality, risk of cerebral malaria and hemolysis- Plasmodium vivax
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Malaria (vivax type); relapsing fever, hypnozoites in liver enable relapses- Trypanosoma brucei
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African sleeping sickness; flagellated protozoan, crosses blood-brain barrier causing CNS disease- Trypanosoma cruzi
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Chagas disease; C-shaped trypanosome, reduviid bug vector (kissing bug), cardiac involvement- Leishmania donovani
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Visceral leishmaniasis (kala azar); intracellular amastigote, spleen/liver enlargement- Toxoplasma gondii
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Toxoplasmosis; cat reservoir (definitive host), bradyzoites in tissue cysts, CNS/eye involvement
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