Word: fungal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chang said he was sterilizing test tubes for an experiment in fungal mutations under the supervision of John R. Raper '39, professor of Botany, at the time of the explosion. He returned home yesterday afternoon after spending the night in Stillman Infirmary...
...doctors can offer better advice. Tinactin, the first simple, locally applied fungicide (fungus killer), has already won 60% of the anti-fungal prescription market in the five months it has been available. Says Dr. Harry Robinson Jr. of the University of Maryland Medical School: "If the diagnosis of athlete's foot is correct-and often it is not-then treatment with Tinactin is 100% effective." The colorless, odorless, stainless liquid has no known side effects, and it works as well on nearly every other form of external fungus infection. In fact, Tinactin's impressive qualities have already earned...
...fungal infections such as ringworm and athlete's foot, DMSO transports the basic antifungal drug and helps to speed clearing of the infection. Dr. Kligman finds that DMSO itself has moderate antifungal powers...
...Fungal Process. By all odds, a man of Ivy's standing should have wriggled out of the mess as soon as he found what he was in. But Andrew Ivy is as stubbornly devoted to any cause he espouses as he is to his vigorous Methodist faith. Difficult to deal with he certainly...
While griseofulvin, taken by mouth, has proved remarkably successful against external fungal infections, most researchers have reported it useless against internal (systemic) infections. Mexico's Dr. Antonio González-Ochoa worried about this, tried griseofulvin against several deep-seated fungal infections. In all but one it failed. The exception was sporotrichosis, in which Sporotrichum schenckii attacks the lymph nodes and often causes hidden ulcers. In his first two patients treated with griseofulvin, he found the antibiotic as effective as the conventional potassium iodide treatment. Dr. González-Ochoa's conclusion: the idea that griseofulvin is useful...