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...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...
During the war, White served in tropical countries and made surveys of fungal deterioration of Army material. At present, he is supervising Army research aimed at preventing fungus damage to clothing and food...
...vigorous group of non-green plants-the fungi. For ages men watched helplessly while these vegetable vampires literally sucked the green blood of plants, wasted their crops. But about 100 years ago, men armed themselves with scientific weapons and began a desperate war-still raging-against the fungal underworld. Last fortnight, in The Advance of the Fungi (Holt; $4), British Chemist E. C. Large offered a vivid story of the last century's battles, a brilliant reconnaissance of the enemy's present positions...