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A Study of Experimental Human Infections Due to Trichophyton Rubrum, Trichophyton Mentagrophytes and Epidermophyton Floccosum, with Particular Reference to the Self-Limitation of the Resultant Lesions12

1955; Elsevier BV; Volume: 25; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/jid.1955.90

1523-1747

J. C. Sloper,

Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases

The study of the experimental inoculation of dermatophytes in man has been largely neglected. However, in the course of the investigation of an epidemic of body-ringworm in Malaya (Sanderson and Sloper, 1), certain preliminary studies were made of the natural course of artificially-induced infections due to Trichophyton mentagrophytes (Robin, Blanchard, 2), Epidermophyton floccoswn (Harz, Langeron and Milochevich), and Trichophyton rubrum (Castellani, Ota). These are reported first because of the paucity of comparable observations, and second, because of their therapeutic implications. For it will be shown that lesions due to all three organisms healed spontaneously, a result fairly well-recognized in the case of the zoophilic Trichophyton mentagrophytes, but entirely unexpected in the case of Trichophyton rubrum and the typically anthropophilic Epidermophyton floccosum.