TINEA CAPITIS TROPIC A LIS 



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Brazil. — -The history of ringworm in Brazil appears to date from 

 the appearance of Silva Araujo's ' Atlas des Maladies de la Peau/ 

 which contained an account of favus and of a Trichophyton causing 

 sycosis, both supported by microscopical observations. 



Later Fernando Terra grew Achorion schoenleini from an atypical 

 case of favus, and some form of fungus from a case of tinea capitis 

 tropicalis, which was traceable to infection from a cat, and was there- 

 fore probably T. Jelineum. The sixth Brazilian Congress of Medicine 

 and Surgery, held in 1907, is remarkable for the appearance of 

 papers on ringworm in which the parasitic fungi were studied 

 according to Sabouraud's classical methods. It was at this meeting 

 that Rabello announced that he had found T. violaceum, M. audouini, 

 and M, lanosum. 



In 1909 Lindenberg reported the presence of T. sabouraudi. Horta 

 announced that M. Jelineum has been found in a considerable 

 number of cases at Sao Paulo, and also isolated T. album Sabouraud, 

 1907. 



In 1911 Horta discovered M. flavescens, and in 1914 he found 

 a new Trichophyton, which was subsequently described and named 

 T. griseum by Vasconcellos. 



Argentina. — In 1907 Uriburu discovered M.fulvum, and in 1909 

 T. exsiccatum and T. polygonum. 



Central America. — In 1913 Brumpt named a peculiar parasite, 

 discovered by Darier in a dermatosis resembling pinta, T. carateum. 

 This disease was found in Central America. 



Africa. — In 1896 Courmont described two forms of tinea capitis 

 tropicalis seen in Senegal. 



In 1902 Bodin found T. violaceum Bodin in North Africa. 



In 1904 Jeanselme announced that Courmont had found M. 

 audouini among the negroes of Senegal, and that Sabouraud and 

 himself had found a Trichophyton (subsequently named T. circon- 

 volutum by Sabouraud in 1909) in white people returning from the 

 Western Sudan. 



In 19 12 Joyeux discovered T. soudanense in the Western Sudan. 

 ■ Ceylon. — In 1905 Castellani discovered T. violaceum var. decalvans 

 in tinea capitis tropicalis, T. macfadyeni CasteUani, in tinea corporis 

 tropicahs, and T. blanchardi Castellani in tinea sabouraudi tropicalis, 

 a term also used for the disease caused by T. circonvolutum Sabouraud. 



In 1908 he observed T. ceylonense Castellani, in cases of tinea 

 nigro-circinata. 



In 1912 he found T. nodoformans Castellani in tinea barbae 

 tropicalis and in tinea ciUorum. 



Tropical Queensland. — In 1914 Priestley discovered M. scorteum 

 Priestley in tinea corporis tropicalis. 



In the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Chalmers and Marshall found 

 Trichophyton currii Chalmers and Marshall, 1914, to be the cause of an 

 epidemic, and latet Trichophyton discoides Sabouraud, 1909, in 

 one case, while Chalmers and Macdonald have met with numbers 

 of cases due to T, violaceum Bodin, 1902, var. khartoumense. 



