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2/Today, we'll focus on superficial fungal infections, pathogens, and treatments, specifically:

💠 Dermatophytes
💠 Tinea versicolor
3/Dermatophytes👉a label given to 3 genera that cause skin disease in humans & animals:

🔹 Trichophyton
🔹 Microsporum
🔹 Epidermophyton

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1/Welcome #IDFellows #IDTwitter #MedTwitter to another #IDFungiFriday

🍄 For the next few tweetorials @A_Spallonii @BCMIDFellowship is presenting a refresher in Med Mycology
🍄 Today’s tweet will focus on basic terminology, 🔬 morphology, and intro to mycoses
2/Goals for these tweets

✅Make you more comfortable with med mycology
✅Learn something you didn’t know before about fungi (🍄)
✅Convince you that 🍄 are fundamental to life on 🌎 Image
3/So let’s start with a question 👉 What are 🍄?

Fungi are organisms that ___
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Welcome to this week’s #IDFungiFriday #Tweetorial by @A_Spallonii 🍄

20yo AML➡️haploSCT➡️GI GVHD➡️relapse

Painful neck mass x2d + fever +sore throat +dysphagia +odynophagia

On exam, you feel a 3cm firm anterior neck mass. No erythema/fluctuance.

T38.1C, HR110, BP138/79, O2👍 Image
Answer:

All choices possible and should be considered in the DDx for a neck mass. Let’s get some imaging and labs on our pt and see what shakes out!

Algorithm for working up a neck mass in an adult 👇 Image
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1/Welcome to #IDFungiFriday!

This week by: @A_Spallonii @teena_xu

Let's get started with a real-world case...

65yoM in Brazil (+) fever, fatigue, myalgias. Dx: COVID-19 pneumonia (mild-mod). Tx: HCQ. 4 wk later found w "mold in the lungs." What is going on here?!
2/Answer: all choices are possible!

It’s not often that fungi headline the news. Let's take a few minutes to talk about CAPA today.

(References will be cited by the PMID... google or pubmed the # to find the paper) Image
3/What is CAPA?

🍄 COVID-19 associated pulmonary aspergillosis

🌎 Increasingly reported around the globe by physicians treating patients with COVID-19-related lung disease...

PMID:
🇫🇷 32445626
🇩🇪 32339350 (figure 1)
🇳🇱 32396381
🇵🇰 32585069
🇦🇺 32395423
🇪🇸 32749040
🇧🇪 32488446 Image
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