LARGE SPORES (MACROCONIDIA, FUSEAUX) OF MICROSPORUM CANIS IN VIVO

1 February 1949

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology

Vol. 59 (2) , 168-174
https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1949.01520270044004

Abstract

DOES Microsporum canis ever produce macroconidia (fuseaux) during its parasitic life cycle in tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp)? We have not found any mention of this possibility in the literature. Gregory¹stated: "While parasitic in the skin [?] the dermatophyte thallus is differentiated only into hyphae and small round thallospores or oidia." Davidson and Gregory²stated unequivocally: "So long as hairs infected with microsporon audouini, trichophyton gypseum, and other ringworm fungi remain attached to the body, the fungi attacking them consist only of hyphae and small round spores." A review of other literature and texts on dermatology and mycology failed to reveal any mention of the possibility of production of macroconidia during the parasitic phase of infection with ringworm fungi. In addition to other sources, texts by the following authors were consulted: Lewis and Hopper, Dodge, Swartz, Conant and others, Langeron, Morris, Becker and Obermayer, Ormsby and Montgomery,

Keywords

MICROSPORUM

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