This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

S. S. EPSTEIN, Ph.D.; FOSTER DEE SNELL, Ph.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1940;42(2):308-311.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In the usual diagnosis of dermatophytosis ("athlete's foot") scrapings from lesions are examined microscopically for the presence of fungi and inoculated into suitable medium for isolation of suspected strains. The finding of fungi depends largely on proper selection of material. Frequently material loaded with mycelia and spores may not yield a growth of fungi on the planted medium owing to overgrowth of bacterial contamination. To overcome such difficulty, it was found that plain Sabouraud dextrose-peptone medium containing 0.0002 per cent (1: 500,000) gentian violet inhibited the growth of the usual bacterial flora of the skin without hindering the growth of pathogenic molds.

Records of a New York mycologic clinic¹ indicated that in approximately 25 per cent of clinical cases of fungous lesions the diagnosis was confirmed by microscopic examination and that in only 50 to 60 per cent of the cases in which the diagnosis was microscopically proved were . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BROOKLYN

From Foster D. Snell, Inc.

Footnotes
Presented before the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, April 8 to 12, 1940, at Cincinnati.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?