MOUSE RINGWORM
- 1 July 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 66 (1) , 65-69
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1952.01530260068006
Abstract
ANIMALS are carriers of many diseases and parasites that may be transmitted to man, among which are cutaneous fungous infections. Mice are susceptible to infection by dermatophytes, and man, in whom dermatophytoses occur frequently, is occasionally infected by these fungi through exposure to diseased mice or to an intermediate animal or object. Achorion quinckeanum infections are the commonest mycotic infections of mice, and, though rarely occurring in the United States, they are not uncommon in Europe and Australia. Trichophyton mentagrophytes infections of mice are apparently rare, for there is very little mention of them in the literature, and I am aware of no reports of them from the United States. ACHORION QUINCKEANUM INFECTIONS Favus is a dermatophytosis characterized by the formation of crusts known as scutula and caused by several varieties of Achorion. Among animals1 it occurs most commonly in mice and rats and less frequently in cats, dogs, and rabbits. Man is susceptible to infection byKeywords
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