The Relationship of Trichophyton Quinckeanum to Trichophyton Mentagrophytes

Abstract

SUMMARYThe successful crossing of a group of Trichophyton quinckeanum cultures with tester strains of Arthroderma benhamiae, the perfect state of T. mentagrophytes, demonstrated that this organism is not a valid species. T. quinckeanum thus is considered to be a rejected synonym of T. mentagrophytes.