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responds in detail with the North American variety and de 

 Beurmann and Gougerot have examined it and pronounced it 

 identical with the French strains. This identity has been 

 conceded 03- Lutz and Splendore. 



Balino and Marco del Pont 14 in 1907 discovered a case of 

 this disease in Buenos Ayres, and Greco, 15 also in 1907, one 

 from Uruguay. Greco suggested calling his organism Sporo- 

 thrichum schenckii-beurmann-i. According to him it agrees 

 with the organisms of both Schenck and de Beurmann. Other 

 cases have since appeared in South America. 



SPOROTRICHOSIS IN MADAGASCAR 



On the island of Madagascar Carougeau 10 in 1908 found 

 this infection in mules and in horses. It is a common disease 

 there. Clinically and pathological!}' it agrees in every way 

 with the disease as it appears in man. It is either a dis- 

 seminating or an ascending gummatous sporotrichosis and 

 responds promptly to potassium iodide. Carougeau repro- 

 duced the disease experimentally in the mule by intravenous 

 injection. He reports a human infection in a veterinarian 

 who punctured himself while operating on a sick mule. He 

 clearly differentiates this infection from the closely related 

 but more serious one of Saccharomyces farciminosus. The 

 sporotrichum from the mules was carefully described by 

 Carougeau and agrees with Sporotrichum schcnckii. De 

 Beurmann and Gougerot have identified it with the French 

 organism and this identity has been acknowledged by Carou- 

 geau. 



As to distribution, then, sporotrichosis is practically a 

 world-wide disease having now been noted in North America, 

 South America, Europe, Madagascar and probably India. 

 The chief focus in Europe is France but cases have been ob- 

 served also in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, England, 

 Belgium and Spain. In North America, as already stated, 

 it is largely confined to the Missouri River Valley. 



14 Argentina Med., 2, p. 23, 1908. 



^Argentina Med., 45, p. 699, 1907. 



w Bnll. et. Mem. de la Soc. Med. de Hopit. de Paris, 34, p. 507, 1999. 



