CONCURRENT FUNGOUS INFECTION OF THE SKIN

Abstract

The relative infrequency of cutaneous infections caused by Trichophyton violaceum, in addition to the supposed rarity of multiple fungous infections of the skin, emphasizes salient features of the case reported here, which is, insofar as can be determined, the original recorded observation of a simultaneous infection with T. violaceum and Trichophyton gypseum. Seventy-three previous examples of multiple fungous infection of the skin are to be found in the literature. In a recent report, Lewis and Hopper¹defined "concurrent infection" as the simultaneous presence on different parts of the body of two or more species of pathogenic fungi which are causing mycotic infections of the skin and are unrelated clinically and immunologically. "Combined infection" refers to the condition in which isolation of two or more different species of fungi from the same area of skin leads one to suspect a clinical and/or immunologic interrelation, while "consecutive infection" has reference to