Ringworm in rabbit due to Trichophyton quinckeanum

Summary Trichophyton quinckeanum was isolated from a spontaneous infection in rabbit. The hairs were also invaded by the fungus, exibiting a yellowish fluorescence in Wood's light. White mice inoculation of the isolate produced typical scutula with hair penetration fluorescing in green colour. The type of animal hair invasion is also discussed. The morphologic features ofTr. quinckeanum, together with its ability of producing scutula while inoculating the white mice, must be emphasized, when proving its separate identity.     

Extra-Scalp Black Dot Ringworm Caused by <Emphasis Type="Italic">Trichophyton tonsurans</Emphasis> Among Contact Sports Players

We describe here two patients with tinea corporis exhibiting black dot ringworm (BDR). A cluster of black dots was observed on the extensor surfaces of the extremities of two rather hairy male patients, a 15-year-old judo practitioner and a 26-year-old combined martial arts fighter, during treatment of tinea corporis with topical antimycotics. Direct KOH examination showed that the black dots were composed of degenerated hair with numerous arthroconidia and were indistinguishable from BDR of tinea capitis. Trichophyton tonsurans was isolated from the dots of both patients. Although they were diagnosed with tinea corporis, they required 2–3 months of treatment with oral terbinafine. Dermatologists should be aware that BDR can appear on areas of the skin other than the scalp.     

Epidemic Type A Influenza in Southwestern Ontario in 1963

From February to April 1963 epidemic type A influenza occurred in Southwestern Ontario. Eighty cases were diagnosed virologically, 24 of them by isolation of virus. The epidemic strain of virus proved unusually difficult to adapt to growth in embryonated eggs, and it had low avidity for antisera. Antigenically it differed from A2 strains of earlier years and belonged to the subgroup of A2 influenza viruses characterized by the A2/Japan/170/62 strain. Antisera to A2 strains of earlier years neutralized the present strain, but antisera to the present strain failed to neutralize the earlier viruses. Some patients formed antibodies to the present epidemic strain alone, and others formed antibodies both to this strain and to earlier A2 strains.     

Mapping Cancer Risk in Southwestern Ontario with Changing Census Boundaries

Summary Mapping disease risk often involves working with data that have been spatially aggregated to census regions or postal regions, either for administrative reasons or confidentiality. When studying rare diseases, data must be collected over a long time period in order to accumulate a meaningful number of cases. These long time periods can result in spatial boundaries of the census regions changing over time, as is the case with the motivating example of exploring the spatial structure of mesothelioma lung cancer risk in Lambton County and Middlesex County of southwestern Ontario, Canada. This article presents a local‐EM kernel smoothing algorithm that allows for the combining of data from different spatial maps, being capable of modeling risk for spatially aggregated data with time‐varying boundaries. Inference and uncertainty estimates are carried out with parametric bootstrap procedures, and cross‐validation is used for bandwidth selection. Results for the lung cancer study are shown and discussed.     

Ringworm by Microsporon gypseum in a dog

Summary The authors make a review ofM. gypseum infection in animals in Brazil. They relate a case of ringworm in a dog by this dermatophyte. They predict that the finding of animal ringworm by this fungus may be commoner in Brazil.

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Sumário Os autores fazem uma revisão das Tinhas em animais, determinadas peloM. gypseum no Brasil. Relatam um caso de Tinha por êsse fungo em um cão. Comentam que as infecções um animais porM. gypseum devam ser mais frequentes em nosso país.