Abstract
For the presidential address at the 32nd annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Medical Mycology, following statements were presented. 1. Introduction of the achievements in the studies on fungi and mycoses since the establishment of the Department of Dermatology, Niigata University School of Medicine in 1916. 2. Present conditions of dermatomycoses in Niigata prefecture were reviewed and some recent rare cases were presented. 3. Morphogenesis of cutaneous mycoses was discussed by referring some of the studies performed in our institute; they were the studies on transepidermal elimination in chromomycosis, animal model of tinea pedis, ultrastructural analysis of fungus and hair tissue in tinea capitis and sycosis trichophytica, and others.
