BRONCHOMYCOSIS ASSOCIATED WITH CERTAIN TYPES OF BRONCHIAL ASTHMA

Abstract

Though severer types of pulmonary mycoses, such as nocardiases (streptothricosis, actinomycosis, etc.) blastomycoses and coccidioses have been noted in this country, the existence of bronchomycosis of a mild and chronic type and particularly associated with certain cases of asthma and chronic bronchitis has received little attention. A study of yeasts of the genera<i>Monilia, Cryptococcus</i>and<i>Endomyces</i>, which were found in great numbers and even as colonies in the sputums of these patients, has been noted in another communication.¹The description of the clinical course and other features of these cases has been deemed sufficiently interesting to record. Of the fifteen patients studied in detail, seven were men and eight were women. The youngest patient, a woman, was 25 years of age; the oldest, a man, was 60. The majority were in the fourth decade of life. Though five patients were born in Russia, all were residents of Philadelphia,