648 MEDICAL MYCOLOGY 



Scopulariopsis sputicola (Galippe) Dodge. 



Monilia sputicola Galippe, Jour, de Anat. 21 : 538-553, PI. 27, 1885. 



Isolated from human sputum, perhaps as a contaminant in the author's 

 attempt to secure sterile sputum by filtration. 



Mycelium variable in diameter, branched, septate; phialides isolated or 

 attached to a principal hypha. Conidia ellipsoid, in chains up to twenty-five, 

 becoming- long, echinulate, scabrous. Spores catenulate on side branches, end 

 ones oldest, 3.7-7.5/x in short diameter, the mean measurements being 5.26 x 

 6.36/A. 



Grows in white tufts of mycelium and white spores. 



Scopulariopsis Castellanii Ota & Komaya, Derm. Woch. 78: 163-165, 1924. 



Isolated, probably as a contaminant, in a case of tinea flava. Mice killed 

 in 14-16 days after intraperitoneal injection, and organism recovered from 

 peritoneum, but pathogenicity mild or doubtful. 



Hyphae about 5//. in diameter, with relatively thick septa, much branched. 

 Fertile hyphae 3-4/a, unbranched or dichotomous. Conidiophore 2-40;u, (sic), 

 tips thickened; conidia spherical or ovoid, or roughly ovoid, 7-9/t, also sub- 

 citriform, echinulate. 



Scopulariopsis Mencieri Dodge, n. sp. 



Scopulariopsis sp. Sartory, Bull. Acad. Med. 81: 783, 784, 1919. 



Found in pus from a war wound. Pathogenic to rabbit and guinea pig. 



Mycelium hyaline, white, septate, sometimes narrowed at the septa, 2.5- 

 3.6/x in diameter. Fertile hyphae in fascicles, sporophores 10-60/a, disposed 

 regularly along a hypha, not isolated at first by a wall. Conidia in chains 

 with the insertion characteristic of Scopulariopsis, 3-5/x in diameter, canary 

 yellow, echinulate or nearly smooth. Optimum temperature 28°-30° C, maxi- 

 mum 40°-41° C. 



Growth good on potato, carrot, Jerusalem artichoke, banana, agar, gelatin, 

 ordinary Kaulin and sugar broths. Only glucose and maltose are attacked, 

 the latter hydrolyzed. Milk is coagulated the tenth day, and the coagulum 

 peptonized. Gelatin liquefied in 5 days. 



Scopulariopsis aureus Sartory, Champ. Parasit. Homme Anim. 680, 681, 

 1922. 



Scopulariopsis sp. Sartory, C. R. Acad, Sci. 167: 703, 704, 1919. 



Found as a parasite on human nails. 



On nails appears as irregular, septate hyphae, 2.5-9 or 10/x with terminal 

 or intercalary chlamydospores, 20-35/a in diameter, occasional conidia. In cul- 

 ture mycelium white, then golden yellow. Hyphae 0.5-1.4/i in diameter, very 

 much branched and having a tendency to aggregate conidiophores. Phialides 

 erect, sometimes differentiated, tapering at the tip with spherical conidia, 

 '^ aureus," usually ornate, 3-4. 5/a in diameter. On gelatin at 22°, conidia are 

 sometimes smooth and hyaline, especially in old cultures. Chlamydospores 

 sometimes intercalary and on maltose agar reach diameter of 130/*. Optimum 

 temperature 29°-30° C, growth ceasing at 39° C. 



