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Soil studies in puerto rico

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    A total of 127 soil samples have been studied for pathogenic fungi.

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    Histoplasma capsulatum was isolated from two different places.

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    Atypical cultures ofMicrosporon gypseum were obtained in eight of the sixty-two isolates of the fungus.

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  1. University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico

    Gladys Torres-Blasini (Professor of Mycology) & José A. Carrasco-Canales (Instructor of Mycology)

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  1. Gladys Torres-Blasini
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This investigation was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland (Grant No. A1-05201-03 BM).

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Torres-Blasini, G., Carrasco-Canales, J.A. Soil studies in puerto rico. Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 29, 177–181 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02055077

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