[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.