Dermatophytosis in Vietnam.
Professor Taplin describes his experiments producing clinical lesions with 2 endemic dermatophytes encountered in Vietnam during the Vietnam War: the human-adapted Trichophyton raubitschekii, possibly a regional form of Trichophyton rubrum that was causing chronic tinea corporis in the Vietnamese, and a zoophilic Trichophyton mentagrophytes that caused highly inflammatory ringworm in the previously unexposed American soldiers. (This particular T mentagrophytes was also the fungus studied by Dr. Jones.).
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014005:Tinea / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D014249:Trichophyton / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D014744:Vietnam / Q000453:epidemiology