REFRACTORY SUBCUTANEOUS ABSCESSES CAUSED BY SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII. A NEW PATHOGENIC FUNGUS
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Refractory Subcutaneous Abscesses Caused by Sporothrix Schenckii. a New Pathogenic Fungus
In the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital for December, 1898, there appeared an article by B. R. Schenck " On Refractory Subcutaneous Abscesses caused by a Fungns possibly related to the Sporotrieha." "The primary point of infection was on the index finger, whence it extended up the radial side of the arm, following the lymph channels, and giving rise to several circumscribed indurations, w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Medicine
سال: 1900
ISSN: 1540-9538,0022-1007
DOI: 10.1084/jem.5.1.77