Microsporum gypseum complex in man and animals.

Twenty-eight strains of the Microsporum gypseum complex isolated from humans and animals were studied. The perfect form was found for 25 of the isolates. Nannizzia incurvata was the species most frequently involved in human pathology, while Nannizzia gypsea was most frequently found on animal lesions.

[Multicenter study of 435 yeast strains isolated from 116,000 hemocultures].

During a multicentric study on the diagnosis of yeast septicemia, 5 blood culture media have been compared. 435 yeast strains have been isolated from 116,372 blood cultures received during year 1989 in the mycological laboratories of 5 university hospitals from east of France. The results show that Candida albicans is always the first septicemia agent with 52% of yeasts isolation from blood.

tcpO2, arterial blood flow and lactate/pyruvate modifications induced by a single dose of naftidrofuryl IV during stage III lower-limb arteriopathies.

A single dose of 600 mg of naftidrofuryl perfused IV during three hours in 12 stage III arteriopathic patients did not modify the average blood flow at the calf but did significantly increase transcutaneous oxygen pressure (33 vs 52 mmHg) and also improved lactates (1.44 vs 0.88 mmol/liter), pyruvate (59 vs 79 mumol/liter), and lactates-pyruvates ratio (33.