Ultrastructural study of the host-bacterium relationship in erythrasma.
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CONTENT ALERTS Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://jb.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY, Nov., 1965 Copyright © 1965 American Society for Microbiology Vol. 90, No. 5 Printed in U.S.A. LEOPOLDO F. MONTES, MOLLIE E. McBRIDE, WILHELM P. JOHNSON, DONALD W. OWENS, AND JOHN M. KNOX Department of Dermatology, Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Received for publication 21 June 1965 Erythrasma, for many years considered a superficial fungal infection, has recently been recognized as a bacterial disease. This was first suggested in 19C0 by Lagana (Acta Microbiol. Hellen. 5:69, 19C0) following isolation of a diphtheroid from lesions of erythrasma. Sarkany, Taplin, and Blank (J. Invest. Dermatol. 37:283, The localization by Sarkany et al. of this organism within cornified cells suggested to us that skin from erythrasma could be used for a study of a human host-bacterium relationship at the ultrastructural level. Also, the frequency of erythrasma, and the accessibility of the lesions 0~~~~~~~~~~- FIG. 1. Superficial stratum corneum in erythrasma. "acCallumNumerous diphtheroids are seen. Goodpasture stain for bacteria in tissue. X 1,500. FIG. 2. Cross