YEASTLIKE FUNGI FOUND ON THE SKIN AND IN THE INTESTINES OF NORMAL SUBJECTS

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The etiologic relationship of fungi recovered from the skin to the lesions in which they are found is a problem of interest to dermatologists. Organisms generally referred to as moniliae or oidia are regularly found in erosio interdigitalis, in perlèche, in a well defined type of paronychia and in diabetic intertrigo. Two opinions are held in regard to them: one, that the fungi are the cause of the lesions in which they occur; the other, that they are saprophytes which find the diseased skin a favorable soil. The fact, previously reported,1 that most of these organisms belong to one well defined species (Monilia albicans) substantiates the idea that these lesions are a specific infection—moniliasis of the skin. Doubt is still thrown, however, on the etiologic importance of M. albicans by the fact that organisms not differentiated from this species by observers are frequently encountered on normal skin. In 1922,

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