1959 Volume 12 Issue 5 Pages 226-230
Trichophytia pompholyciformis and trichophytia eczematosa are comparatively difficult to cure. Many works have been published en these disease especially after the War and number of antifungal preparations have been supplied. Most of them are mercuric drugs, but recently a group of antibiotics have appeared, which include trichomycin, aureothricin, etc. The authors received a new antibiotic variotin from Nippon Kayaku Co. Ltd., and applied it clinically to several dermatomycosis with some favorable effect.