Experience in the Treatment of Trichophytosis an Interim Report on Variotin

Abstract

There have been many therapeutic agents against trychophytosis, and some of them have shown fairly good curative effects. Most of the agents which are still in daily clinical use because of high effective rate contain mercuric compounds, salicylic acid, undecylenic acid, pentachlorphenol, sulfur, etc. as their main ingredients. With the advance of antibiotic research, there gradually has been introduced a number of antibiotics with anti-trychophytosis activity. In Japan, aureothricin, trichomycin and nystatin have already been used, and many authors have reported clinical data with these antibiotics. Curative effects of these antibtotics, however, are not necessarily superior to those of above-mentioned chemical therapeutics, and the latters were even superior to the formers in many cases.

The present authors want to make an interim report on their experiences with variotin liquid, a new anti-trichophytosis agent supplied by Nippon Kayaku Co. Ltd., which showed quite an excellent result in comparison with old therapeutics.