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J. B. HOWELL, M.D.; J. WALTER WILSON, M.D.; MARCUS R. CARO, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1952;65(2):194-205.

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MEDICAL mycology has enjoyed a tremendous wave of popularity in recent years, especially among dermatologists. The appearance about 10 years ago of the epidemic (human) type of preadolescent tinea capitis in the United States and its subsequent rapid spread throughout the majority of its cities necessitated the adoption of culture methods as a routine in all diseases involving the scalp, in order that the prognostic, therapeutic, and epidemiologic status of each case could be correctly assessed. These extensive cultural studies have also disclosed a surprising number of cases of other varieties of scalp infection heretofore considered rare, and interesting variations in the geographical distribution of certain species of infecting fungi are becoming apparent.

The present communication deals with the discovery that infection of the scalp by the fungus Trichophyton tonsurans is now by no means rare in the children of Texas and California and is even encountered occasionally . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DALLAS, TEXAS; LOS ANGELES; CHICAGO

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology at the One Hundredth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, June 15, 1951.

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