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MEDICAL MYCOLOGY 



The type species is Indiella Mansoni Brumpt. 



Indiella Brtunpti Piraja da Silva, Sobre uma nova maduromycose da 

 graos branclios . . . Thesis Bahia, 1922. 



Following description by Gammel, Arch. Derm. Syphilol. 15: 256, 1927. 



Sterile white hyphae at first slender, scarcely septate and about 2/i. in 

 diameter, then thicker, up to 7/x in diameter, and septate. Septa variably 

 spaced from 3-15/x apart. White grains are soft, composed of densely packed 

 hyphae, generally spherical and 0.06-0.08 mm. in diameter. Chlamydospores 

 terminal, often spherical. 



Indiella Mansoni Brumpt, Arch, de Parasitol. 10: 545-549, Fig. 9, 1906. 



This organism is parasitic on man in India. 



Mycelium white, quite slender when young, 1.5-2/a in diameter, septate 

 with walls 15-20/1, apart. Older hyphae irregular, 3-5/* in diameter, walls 5-10/i 

 apart. Many chlamydospores present, terminal or intercalary, 5-12/* in di- 



Fig. 111. — Ithdiella Mansoni. (After Brumpt 1906.) 



ameter, generally spherical and unicellular, rarely segmented (Fig. 111). 

 Grains in tissues are very small, flattened, varjdng from 200-250/* in diameter, 

 often parasitized by bacteria. 



Indiella Reynieri Brumpt, Arch, de Parasitol. 10: 549-555, Figs. 10, 11, 

 1906. 



Organism found parasitic on man in Paris. 



Thallus white. Young mycelium septate and slender, 1-1.5/x in diameter, 

 septa 10-15/1 apart. Peripheral hyphae 4-5/i in diameter, irregular, moniliform, 

 walls closer than in central hyphae, each terminated by a 2-3-celled chlamydo- 

 spore, from 5-20/a in diameter. Intercalary chlamydospores rare, grain or 

 sclerotium rounded when young, later becoming like a twisted cord or the 

 excrement of the earthworm and about 1 mm. in diameter. 



Doubtful Position 



It seems likely that the organism described as Halohyssus moniliformis 

 var. parasiticus Maffei, Atti 1st. Bot. R. Univ. Pavia IV, 3: 19-28, 10 figs., 1932, 

 belongs in Indiella, or if it proves to belong in Halohyssus, perhaps that genus 



