Contribution to the study of Trichosporon cutaneum (de Beurman, Gougerot et Vaucher), Ota (1926) (author's transl)36600

The pathogenicity is studied in vitro and in vivo. White piedra is obtained in vitro on hair applying a technic described by Vanbrueseghem (1949) for the study of dermatophytes. Concerning the in vivo study: retrocultures of the kidneys, the lungs, the brain and the liver of white mice inoculated with T. cutaneum (50,000 cells) by the intravenous route were all positive