Identification of Certain Funguses Pathogenic for Man

Abstract

The authors use the term "Blastomyces" to include a multiplicity of organisms, yeast-like in certain stages of their life cycle, including in their classification, Saccharomyces, Cryptococcus, Monilia, Oidium, Endomyces, and Coccidioides. The chemical and cultural behavior of yeast-like fungi isolated from sputum in cases of pneumonia, asthma, vaginitis, thrush, skin lesions, and generalized infections is given. The yeast-like fungus most frequently encountered was Monilia; its characteristics were constant when observed under identical environmental conditions and at regular periods of incubation. The investigation tends to show that the variability of this organism reported by other investigations has been due to lack of uniformity in technic.