Fungi causing opportunistic mycoses
Opportunistic Mycoses
- Usually don’t occur in healthy people
- Occur in immunocompromised persons
- May result from uncareful and random use of broad spectrum antibiotics
- Opportunistic infections
- occur in debilitated patients whose normal defence mechanisms are impaired.
- Opportunistic pathogen:
- is an organism that is unable to cause disease in healthy individuals but can infect individuals with impaired immunity.
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| Candida albicans | Candidiasis (oral, vaginal, cutaneous, and systemic candidiasis |
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| Aspergillus fumigatus | Aspergillosis (invasive infection of the lung) |
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| Cryptococcus neoformans | Cryptococcosis (lung infection) |
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| Rhizopus oryzae | Mucormycosis (Rhinocerebral infection) |
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| Pneumocystis carinii | Pneumonia (Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia 'PCP') |
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