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Sporotrichosis Revisited
65-Year Follow-up of the Second Reported Case
- ROBERT B. MCFARLAND, M.D.
- Requests for reprints should be addressed to Robert B. McFarland, M.D., 2660 13th St., Boulder, Colo.
Excerpt
In the spring of 1899 Dr. Ludvig Hektoen of Chicago received material for culture taken from a subcutaneous abscess by Dr. C. F. Perkins of Shenandoah, Iowa. The renowned Hektoen was able to identfy the fungus he recovered as a Sporotrichium that Schenk had first reported as a pathogen in 1898 (1). Dr. Perkins was probably somewhat surprised by this and also by his patient's complete recovery since Schenk's first patient had died. I was somewhat surprised to discover Dr. Perkins' patient alive and well 65 years after his historic illness. The present report will briefly review the original paper
This 100-word excerpt has been provided in the absence of an abstract.
Summario in Interlingua
Le secunde cognoscite caso de sporotrichosis occurreva in 1899 in un puero qui vive ancora e se trova ben 65 annos plus tarde. Le caso esseva identificate como sporotrichosis gratias al diligentia e ingeniositate de un obscur medico rural e su consulente, Ludvig Hektoen, un del pioneros del pathologia in le West Proxime del Statos Unite. Le habilitate clinic de Dr. Perkins esseva equalate per su habilitate litterari: su reporto es un modello stilistic. Le vita del patiente se extende a transverso le patente historia de sporotrichosis, e il es integremente appropriate que su test cutanee a sporotrichina continua esser fortemente positive.
Article and Author Information
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- Received March 11, 1966.
- Accepted March 30, 1966.
