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probable that the organism was isolated in Louisiana, perhaps the atypical 

 case mentioned by Castellani (1933, p. 297), while Coccidioides is practically 

 confined to California, most of the patients elsewhere giving a history of a 

 recent sojourn in that state. It is also quite probable that Agostini is wholly 

 unfamiliar with the references she quotes, or she would not suggest that the 

 ascospores reported by American workers in Coccidioides are oil globules. 



Geotrichmn rotundatum (Castellani) Almeida, Annaes Fac. Med. Sao 

 Paulo 9: 12, 1933. 



Endomyces rotundatus Castellani, Brit. Med. Jour. 2: 1208-1212, 1912; 

 Arch, de Parasitol. 16: 184-186, 1913. 



Moyiilid rotunda Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 2, 828, 1913. 



Monilia rotundata Castellani, Jour. Trop. Med. Hyg. 17: 307, 1914. 



Oidium rotundatum Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 3, 1095, 

 1919. 



Mycoderma rotundatum Brumpt, Precis Parasitol. ed. 4, 1213, 1927. 



Mycelohlastanon rotundatum Ota, Jap. Jour. Derm. Urol. 28: [4], 1928. 



Candida rotundata Basgal, Contr. Estudo Blastomycoses Pulmonares 49, 

 1931. 



Isolated from saliva and stools from cases of sprue and enteritis. 



Growth on glucose agar wrinkled and yellowish. Acid formation with 

 glucose, fructose, maltose, galactose, and lactose. Milk strongly acidified and 

 coagulated. Coagulated serum not liquefied. Gelatin liquefied, sometimes 

 slowly. 



Geotrichum Muisa (Mattlet) Dodge, n. comb. 



Torula Muisa Mattlet, Ann. Soc. Beige Med. Trop. 6: 25, 26, 1926. 



Patient a chief in the Belgian Congo who had a bronchitis of long stand- 

 ing. Mucous sputum containing well-defined, greenish purulent islets which 

 on examination showed cells of above organism. Medication with potassium 

 iodide and sodium cacodylate caused amelioration of symptoms. Patient dis- 

 appeared. 



In sputum, spherical cells, 4-5/a in diameter, with clear double membrane, 

 uniformly colored content with some large refringent granules. No sprout- 

 ing forms. Optimum temperature for growth 37° C. 



In potato decoction after three days at 37°, only hyphal forms. Branched 

 hyphae of variable diameter, 1.5-3.5/a, septa distant, chlamdospores spherical, 

 3-7(U, in diameter. 



On Sabouraud agar at 37° C, colony amber yellow, coherent, with dull 

 surface ; later wrinkled and furrowed, with abundant submerged hyphae. In 

 potato decoction, it forms a voluminous sediment of yellowish flakes, no pel- 

 licle. No fermentation of sugars. Coagulation and acid formation with milk. 

 Gelatin liquefied. 



Geotrichum louisianoideum Castellani, Med. Press Circular 136: 439, 1933; 

 Jour. Trop. Med. Hyg. 36: 304, 1933. 



Isolated from cases of primary pulmonary blastomycosis, one case from 

 Louisiana, two subsequent cases from Southern Italy. 



