Dermatophytosis is considered as one of the most important fungal skin disease affecting both humans and animals otherwise its importance as zoonotic disease. Treatment of ringworm in cattle is expensive and time consuming especially on herd level. Vaccination can be a giant step forward to prevent the occurrence of mycozoonosis between the affected animals with ringworm and susceptible man. Fi...

Introduction Keratinophylic fungi are common inhabitants of the soil, where they process the hairs and skin cells shed by animals, as well as all types of keratin products that fall from animals and humans during the natural and continuous cycle of skin and coat shedding. The group of keratinophylic fungi is very large, but only three genera, known as dermatophytes, are known to cause disease (...

ADDENDUM.-Since the preparation of this paper we have included in our battery of chemotherapeutic agents " epodyl " (I.C.I.) and vincaleukoblastine, on the advice of Mr. L. Walsh, of Atkinson Morley's Hospital, and Mr. K. Till, at Great Ormond Street, respectively. In the five gliomata tested (four astrocytomata and one ependymoma) vincaleukoblastine has proved very cytotoxic but occasionally v...