Microsporosis of the Scalp. Evaluation of a New Therapeutic Agent.

By COMPARISON with other large cities, Boston has not had the high incidence of tinea capitis prevalent in most of the country.1 , 2 It has, however, experienced a rapidly increasing incidence of infection with the human type of ringworm of the scalp, Microsporum audouini, as compared with the correspondingly diminished prevalence of the cat and dog type (zoophilic), Microsporum canis. This changing picture is a matter of growing concern because of the already widely recognized greater resistance and longer persistence of infection with the human type, M. audouini. Therefore, any new antifungoid preparation that promises superiority is avidly . . .