On a Rare Disease Due to Alternaria Tenuis Nees (Alternariasis)
1960 Volume 72 Issue 1 Pages 78-82
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1960 Volume 72 Issue 1 Pages 78-82
1) The present author has experienced 37 cases of alternariasis in and around Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture, between January, 1956 and June, 1958.
2) Pure culture was successfully carried out with spores of the fungus isolated from the urine of the patients, using potato-glucose agar medium.
3) Upon experimental infection of guinea-pig with the fungus, the death rate of ca. 70% ensued with 8 days for existence on the average.
4) For treating the disease, trichomycin was found most efficacious.
5) Infection by the fungus seems to come orally through drinkng well water and the only sure way of prophylaxis is boiling water at least for 10 minutes before use.
