Details

Date1842
AuthorGruby
ContributionDescribed fungus as cause of "muguet" (thrush) of children.
ReferenceNorman
NotesDavid Gruby; called it Sporotrichum. According to Ainsworth it was named Oidium [Candida] albicans in1853. See 1841. Also in Rippon, Bulloch. In 1842 Gruby also described fungus of beard ringworm (named Microsporon [Trichophyton] mentagrophytes in 1853).
CategoryCausation
Pathogen ClassFungi

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