Mycotic

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Mykose, Mykosis,/. Med.) mycosis. Mykosterin, n. mycosterol, mykotisch, a. Med.) mycotic. 

A fungus is a colorless plant that lacks chlorophyll. Fungi that cause disease in humans may be yeastlike or moldlike the resulting infections are called mycotic infections or fungal infections. 

The superficial mycotic infections occur on the surface of, or just below, the skin or nails. Superficial infections include tinea pedis (athlete s foot), tinea cruris (jock itch), tinea corporis (ringworm), onychomycosis (nail fungus), and yeast infections, such as those caused by Candida albicans. Yeast infections or those caused by C. albicans affect women in the vulvovaginal area and can be difficult to control. Women who are at increased risk for vulvovaginal yeast infections are those who have diabetes, are pregnant, or are taking oral contraceptives, antibiotics, or corticosteroids. 

Deep mycotic infections develop inside the body, such as in the lungs. Treatment for deep mycotic infections... 

A nurse is preparing to administer amphotericin B to a patient with a systemic mycotic infection. This is the first time the nurse has administered amphotericin B. Determine what information the nurse should be aware of concerning the administration of this drug. Explain your answer. 

Amphotericin B (Fungizone)—used for treatment of mycotic infections (fungal)... 

Heart murmurs are heard frequently on auscultation (over 85% of cases), but a new murmur or change in murmurs is only found in 5% to 10 % or 3% to 5 %, respectively.1 Additionally, over 90% of patients who have a new murmur will develop congestive heart failure, which is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Splenomegaly and mycotic aneurysms also are noted in many cases of IE. 

Vascular phenomena, major arterial emboli, septic pulmonary infarcts, mycotic aneurysm, intracranial hemorrhage, conjunctival hemorrhages, and Janeway s lesions... 

If the patient has had a mycotic infection previously, determine what treatments were helpful to the patient in the past. 

Provide the patient education pertaining to mycotic infections and antifungal therapy. 

Causes of mycotic infections of the skin, hair, or nails... 

Mycotic infections caused by dematiaceous fungi include chromoblastomycosis, mycetoma, phaeohyphomycosis, and sporotrichosis. In this chapter, only chromoblastomycosis, phaeohyphomycosis, and sporotrichosis will be considered. Sporotrichosis is treated here because the etiologic agent is dematiaceous in culture, even though the yeast form in tissue is hyaline. 

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Psittacosis, Q fever, plague, diphtheria, tick-borne diseases, mycotic infections. 

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Contagious ecthyma, contagious pustular dermatitis, bluetongue, mycotic dermatitis, sheep scab, mange, insect bites, parasitic pneumonia, and photosensitization. 

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Foot-and-mouth disease, swine vesicular disease, vesicular exanthema of swine, rinderpest, infectious bovine rhinopneumon-itis, bovine virus diarrhea, malignant catarrhal fever, bluetongue, bovine papular stomatitis, mycotic stomatitis, photosensitization, cowpox, pseudo-cowpox, pseudo-lumpy skin disease, bovine herpes mammillitis, Potomac Valley fever in horses, foot rot, chemical burns, and thermal burns. 

Cryptococcosis is a noncontagious, systemic mycotic infection caused by the ubiquitous encapsulated soil yeast Cryptococcus neoformans. 

Suspected systemic mycotic infection leading to sepsis in neutropenic and critically ill patients should be empirically treated with parenteral amphotericin B or caspofungin, especially if the patient is clinically unstable. 

Content source Coordinating Center for infectious Diseases /Diced on of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases... 

Q18 What is the most appropriate treatment for a mycotic vaginal superinfection ... 

Uses. As broad-spectrum antimicrobial cold sterilant/disinfectant for hospital equipment as tanning agent for leather as tissue fixative as cross-linking agent for proteins as preservative in cosmetics as therapeutic agent for warts, hyperhidrosis, and dermal mycotic infections in X ray processing solutions and film emulsion as a disinfectant in the beauty industry... 

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