Report on the Mycological Diagnostic Service, Queen's University, Belfast, 1962

IN the fourth year since its inception in 1959 the Mycological Laboratory of the Department of Microbiology, Queen's University of Belfast, continued to provide a diagnostic service for the isolation and/or identification of fungi associated with human sources. During 1962 inycological examinations were made on 1,322 specimens fromn 1,000 patients from thirty hospitals, clinics or laboratories, dermatological or general practices in Northern Ireland. The presence of pathogenic fungi was confirmed by microscopy or culture of material from 362 patients (36.2 per cent.). As in previous years, most specimens originated from dermatological clinics and practices, but a substantial number (10 per cent.) were derived from elsewhere. TABLE 1.