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COL. ROBERT S. HIGDON, MC

AMA Arch Derm. 1956;74(6):620-626.

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As every dermatologist who has been stationed in the Far East Command^* will testify, monilial intertriginous infections in military men during the hot, humid summer months constitute one of the greatest dermatologic problems encountered by American physicians in this part of the world.

The Problem

Upon arrival in Japan during the summer of 1953, I was impressed with the large number of male military patients being treated for skin infections caused by Candida albicans. Women and civilian men were infrequently seen with any evidence of a similar eruption. During each of the past three summers, between 200 and 300 soldiers and airmen in the greater Tokyo area alone have contracted such an infection.

Although this report deals primarily with patients seen and treated in the Tokyo-Yokohama-Zama vicinity, the incidence of cutaneous monilial infections is essentially the same throughout all three countries which comprise the Far . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
U. S. Army

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan. 18, 1956.

Consultant in Dermatology to the Chief Surgeon, U. S. Army Forces, Far East and Eighth U. S. Army; Chief of Dermatology Service, Tokyo Army Hospital.

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