Summary.— The dispersal into the environment of spores of dermatophytes and Candida albicans from patients with mycotic skin infections is demonstrated by the culture of samples from the air and from normal areas of the body. C. albicans is found to be recovered more frequently than dermatophytes. The recovery of these fungi is also recorded from sweep plates of bedding and brush samples of the scalps of normal children in communities which harbour cases of scalp ringworm.
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