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A 24 year old from Southeast Asia was seen at a clinic with a chief complaint of weight loss and fever.  A complete blood count confirmed he was anemic.  Multiple skin lesions were present on his arms with some developing draining pus.  A gram stain of the pus revealed what appeared to be yeast-like cells.  A culture of the pus grew a blue-green mold, which produced a red soluble pigment on the agar.  The most likely causative agent is:

By tradition, judges who come from a particular state are

A young woman went to the Emergency Room with irritated eyes.  After examining her, the physician found she had an infection in both of her corneas.  A culture of the lesions revealed sickle cell-shaped conidia.  What is the causative agent?  

A culture is taken from a nodule near a puncture wound on a gardener’s forearm.  A mold at room temp showed septate hyphae with a daisy-flower conidia arrangement.  At 37°C this culture produced cigar-shaped yeast.  This organism is most likely:    

Do you think that the U.S. president should be subjected to less or more congressional oversight? Justify your answer and provide examples. (Essay question, 150 words)

Appeal courts have

their granules contain anti-inflammatory substances that inhibit local allergic reactions.

Which organism is a common cause of white grain mycetoma (also known as eumycotic mycetoma) and death in near-drowning victims, and can exhibit either an asexual or sexual form on culture?

cytoplasm usually has vacuoles of varying sizes

Once they leave peripheral circulation and enter tissues, they’re called macrophages.