TRANSMISSION OF SPOROTRICHOSIS TO MAN BY THE BITES OF A WHITE RAT INOCULATED WITH A NEW VARIETY OF SPOROTRICHUM

Abstract

During an operation on a white rat infected with experimental sporotrichosis (Sporotrichum Jeanselmei, Brumpt and Langeron, 1910), a young syphilitic and tubercular woman who was holding the animal was deeply bitten on both thumbs. A few days after this accident, a slightly painful, inflammatory reaction appeared around each bite. This soon resembled a subepidermic paronychia. These were sporotrichosic chancres whose characteristics are: almost complete apathy, viscous pus, gummatous nodule subjacent to ulceration. Under iodide treatment (4 grams of potassium iodide per day), the chancres regressed rapidly.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 21, 1966
Accession Number
AD0834633

Entities

People

  • M. E. Jeanselme
  • M. Paul Chevallier

Organizations

  • United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abdomen
  • Albumins
  • Bile Pigments
  • Blood
  • Cells
  • Coinfection
  • Health Services
  • Hemorrhage
  • Hospitals
  • Infection
  • Inoculation
  • Parasites
  • Potassium Iodide
  • Rodents
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Tissues
  • Upper Extremity

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  • Educational Psychology
  • Immunology
  • Toxicology/Environmental Toxicology