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Penicillium can best be separated from Aspergillus by

A woman went to her doctor for a painful lesion on her thumb that developed after doing some spring cleanup in her rose beds.  An examination of the direct tissue exam revealed small, cigar-shaped conidia.  The culture was incubated at room temperature and grew as a mold-like colony after 5 days.  A lactophenol cotton blue microscopic preparation revealed thin, delicate, hyaline, septate hyphae with conidia at the tips of the conidiophores in a rosette pattern.   Which of the following is most likely?

A culture of skin scrapings reveals a fungus that produces club-shaped (spatulate) macroconidia and no microconidia.  Which of the following organisms is most likely?

A patient with thickened and discolored nails was diagnosed with onychomycosis.  You received clippings of the nail in the laboratory for culture.  Microscopic analysis of the mold colony growth revealed many globose microconidia and thin walled, smooth, cigar shaped macroconidia that had four to five cells separated by parallel cross-walls.  You will identify this organism as

Of the following, the fungal species that grows as a mold at environmental temperature, and a yeast at body temperature is

Which of the following could be found in clinical specimens as normal flora and also as clinically significant isolates?

A dark pigment produced by colonies growing on birdseed agar is due to

What is the name of the condition caused by Malassezia furfur?

A common presentation of infection with this organism is “fungus ball”.

A research is working on a cell which has permeability to glucose.  This cell’s plasma membrane contains saturated and unsaturated fatty acids in equal frequency.  If the researcher increased the amount of unsaturated fatty acids in the membrane, what effect would this have on the permeability of the membrane to glucose after the change?