1959 Volume 12 Issue 5 Pages 201-202
As previously reported1), variotin is a new antifungal antibiotic, having low toxicity and exhibiting inhibiticn against Trichophyton and other pathogenic fungi. In this paper, the cultural characteristics and microscopic observations on variotin-producing strain are presented.
A fungus isolated from a soil sample collected at Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, was numbered as K-5201.