Tag: useful and harmful microbes

Athlete's foot is a common fungal infection of the skin, especially between the toes. Foot and mouth disease is a viral disease affecting animals. Leukoderma (vitiligo) is a pigmentation disorder, and psoriasis is an autoimmune skin condition - neither is fungal.

Athlete's foot is a fungal infection typically caused by species of Trichophyton, often referred to as Tinea pedis. Tinea capitis affects the scalp, and Candida is a different genus.

Claviceps is an ergot fungus that grows on the ears of rye and related cereal and forage plants.
Consumption of grains or seeds contaminated with the survival structure of this fungus the ergot sclerotium, can cause ergotism in humans and mammals.
So, the correct answer is 'Ergotism'

• Tinea is the name of a group of diseases caused by a fungus.
• Types of tinea include ringworm, athlete's foot and jock itch. 
• You can get them by touching an infected person, from damp surfaces such as shower floors, or even from a pet. 
• Hence, the Causative agent of Athlete's foot disease is Tinea.
• So, the correct answer is 'Tinea'.

Athlete's foot is caused by dermatophytic fungi that thrive in warm, moist environments. It is not caused by bacteria, protozoa, or echinoderms.

Ringworm is a common fungal infection of the skin and is not due to the worm. The condition is named for the site of the body where the infection occurs. It causes a scaly, crusted rash that may appear round, red patches on the skin.
So, the correct answer is 'Fungi'

Many common skin infections are caused by different kinds of fungi like example Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis causes skin disease Therefore, (a) is the correct answer.

• Typhoid is an enteric fever caused by the bacterium salmonella thyphi. Hence typhoid is not a fungal disease.
• Trichophyton is a genus of fungi, which includes the parasitic varieties that cause diseases such as tinea, including athlete's foot, ringworm, jock itch, and similar infections of the nail, beard, skin, and scalp.
• Microsporum is a genus of fungi that causes tinea capitis, tinea corporis, ringworm diseases.
  
• Hence Trichophyton and Microsporum cause fungal disease in Humans.
• So, the correct answer is 'Both B and C'.

• The pathogen Microsporum responsible for ringworm disease in humans belongs to the same kingdom of organisms as that of Rhizopus - a mold(a fungus that grows in the form of multicellular filaments called hyphae)because both Microsporum and Rhizophus belong to kingdom Fungi.
• So, the correct answer is 'Rhizopus - a mould'.