RESEMBLANCE OF YEASTS IN CUTANEOUS SCRAPINGS TO HYPHOMYCETES
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- 1 March 1922
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 5 (3) , 325-328
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1922.02350280030003
Abstract
To one who has done cultural work on both theBlastomycesand theHyphomycetesit is easy to understand how isolated elements of the one may resemble those of the other. But when it comes to dermatologic examinations of scrapings, pus, etc.—tissue products in general—we have been in the habit of believing that theBlastomycesshould appear as round cells unassociated with mycelia, more or less, and vice versa for theHyphomycetes. This still holds good as a general rule, and may turn out to be an absolute one when we come to know more about the genuineness of the pathogenicity of these higher fungi. I have already cited an instance (illustrated) in which the scrapings from a case of ringworm of the nails showed bodies resemblingBlastomyces,1and in which the bodies were reproduced later byPenicillium brevicaulewhich was isolated in the cultures. Here aHyphomycetesproducedKeywords
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