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RICHARD BAILEY, M.D.; LEON GOLDMAN, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1934;29(4):564-568.

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Oidia not only produce certain well known diseases of the skin but are often found on the normal skin, as Jessner and Kleiner,¹ Staehelin, Mu and van Schouwen² and others have shown. It is often difficult to decide whether the species of Oidia found in a particular case is pathogenic or only saprophytic. This question is of special interest since Ravaut and his school³ discussed levuroses and levurides, and since the investigations made by Ramel.⁴

Several methods have been used to differentiate between pathogenic and saprophytic strains of Oidia.⁵ For example, Staehelin, Mu and van Schouwen analyzed the cultures themselves. Benham,⁶ Hopkins and others have used agglutination as a differential criterion. There remains, among other methods, the clinical comparison of their oidiomycins.

Oidiomycin is a preparation which should be analogous to tuberculin and particularly to trichophytin. Intradermal testing of the latter preparations gives negative . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Fellow in Dermatology and Syphilology, the Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minn.; CINCINNATI

Work done in the Dermatologische Klinik, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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