[1st cases of adiaspiromycosis observed in small mammals in Turkey. 3 new host species].

The authors examine the lungs of 193 small mammals caught in different places in West Turkey and belonging to 11 different species. Six species have one or many adiaspores in their lungs. Those are Microtus arvalis, Apodemus flavicollis and A.

[Adiaspiromycosis in small wild mammals caught in Tunisia].

The authors examine the lungs of 125 small mammals caught in different provinces of Tunisia and belonging to 12 species; 4 Apodemus sylvaticus, 1 Mus spretus and 1 Crocidura russula possess one adiaspore of Emmonsia crescens = Chrysosporium parvum or more hundred. They find adiaspiromycosis only in damp biotopes.

[Possibilities of obtaining, by passage on plantlets, reproduction forms (porospores) in strains of Alternaria (dematiaceous fungi) isolated from human cutaneous lesions and having lost the possibility of fructifying. Preliminary results].

Strains of Alternaria (Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes) isolated from lesions in men or animals generally lose quickly their ability to fructify (porospores forming) after their isolation and keeping up on artificial culture mediums classicaly used in medical diagnostic laboratories. The authors, from the fact that Alternaria are fungi which are normally parasites of living plants, put, on plantlets from germinating corn seeds (graminaceous plant) and lentil seeds (papilionaceous plant), two strains of Alternaria isolated from human cases of alternariosis which were diagnosed in their laboratory and which did not give porospores since delays reaching 14 months. They obtained, on corn plantlets, very numerous, normal and mature porospores, and on lentil plantlets, or nothing with the first strain, or very rare porospores with the second.

[Human cutaneous alternariosis. 3 cases. Review of the literature (author's transl)].

The authors present 3 new cases of dermal alternariosis, associated with one Hodgkin's disease and 2 kidney transplants. Review of the other cases of literature demonstrates the pathogenicity of this saprophytic fungus which becomes opportunistic mostly in case of immuno-deficiency. Clinical aspect is usually that of papulo-nodular, ulcerative or vegetating, unique or multiple lesions of limbs and head.

[Presence of adiaspores of Emmonsia crescens Emmons and Jellison, 1960, a moniliaceous, aleurioid fungus, in the lungs of small wild mammals in northern Morocco].

The authors examine the lungs of 133 small mammals caught in the North of Morocco and belonging to 7 species: 12,8% of the animals (14/95 A. sylvaticus, 1/18 M. spretus and 2/11 C.

[Different behavior of 22 strains of Emmonsia Cifferi and Montemartini 1959, a monilial fungus, in the lungs of laboratory mice in comparison with their parasitic morphology in vitro].

The 22 strains of Emmonsia Ciferri & Montemartini 1959, inoculated intranasally to laboratory mice are not equally virulent. One month after the inoculation, 15 of the strains had produced adiaspores 120 t9 190 micrometer in diameter in the lung. Another strain produced adiaspores measuring 44 micrometer and 2 others measuring 20 micrometer or 10 micrometer.

[Comparison of growth and morphological differentiation of 22 strains of Emmonsia Ciferri et Montemartini, 1959, agent of adiasporomycosis, in different temperatures].

The comparative study of the responses of 22 strains of Emmonsia to different temperatures between 5 degrees and 40 degrees C allowed us to confirm the existence of thermophilic and non-thermophilic strains. 11 strains composed a very homogeneous non-thermophilic group: their growth, maximal at 20-25 degress C was almost completely inhibited above 30 degrees and they produced characteristic adiaspores at 35 degrees. The remaining 11 strains composed a thermophilic group: their growth was maximal at 25 degrees except for 57 (30-35 degrees), the growth of U.

[Comparative sensitivity of several laboratory animals to infection by nasal instillation of the saprophytic phase of Emmonsia crescens Emmons & Jellison, 1960: frequency and intensity of parasitism, histological reactions].

Comparative observations were made on the development of Emmonsia crescens in the lungs of laboratory rats and mice, golden hamsters and guinea pigs after a nasal instillation of a heavy suspension of the saprophytic phase of the fungus. 95% of 80 experimental rats were found to be parasited against 80% of 200 inoculated mice, while only 30% of 70 hamsters and all of 4 guinea pigs showed an infection. The lungs of the mice, rats and guinea pigs were frequently more heavily infected than those of the hamsters.

[In vitro formation of adiospores in 10 strains of Emmonsia cresens, the fungal agent of adiospiromycosis].

Emmonsia crescens Emmons and Jellison 1960 is a dimorphic fungus responsible for pulmonary mycoses in animals and man. Temperature was the essential factor influencing the development of the parasitic phase : the adiaspores, which formed better at 37 degrees than at 40 degrees. Certain media (medium with blood, with egg, Sabouraud.