SUPERFICIAL MYCOSES OF VETERANS

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IT WAS BELIEVED by many that a number of new strains, and possibly new species, of pathogenic fungi would be found in soldiers returning from the tropics, but the course of the war brought no reports of infections with new organisms or of rare infections, such as tinea imbricata, infrequently found in this country. However, such colloquialisms as "jungle rot," "New Guinea rot" and "swamp rot" were applied to cutaneous diseases in the tropics, terms used not only by the soldiers but even creeping into diagnostic slips of medical officers. The discovery of a mycelium in some of the lesions familiarly termed "jungle rot" led many persons to believe that most of these conditions were mycotic in origin. A review of service medical records of World War II, of both the Army and the Navy, has been possible during the past two years. The well known penchant for designating
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