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MAL DEL PINTO; CARATE

V. PARDO-CASTELLO, M.D.; ISMAEL FERRER, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1942;45(5):843-864.

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HISTORICAL SURVEY

The disease known under the names of pinta, mal del pinto, carate and several other local denominations in South America seems to have existed in the New World for many years before the arrival of the Europeans. The chronicles of the time¹ mention this disease as prevalent in certain areas. Little attention was paid to this disease until Ruiz Sandoval² in 1881 and Montoya y Flores³ in 1898 described certain phases of it and expounded the parasitic theory, reporting on a number of aspergilli and penicilliums as the cause of this dermatosis. For over a quarter of a century authors of books on dermatology and tropical medicine repeated the only known reports, those just mentioned, and consequently pinta remained a more or less rare tropical disease, supposedly produced by fungi. An important contribution was made by Menk,⁴ in 1926, who called attention to the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
HABANA, CUBA

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology, University of Habana, and the Hospital Calixto García.

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