Abstract
Summary
Histoplasma capsulatum isolated from an infant who succumbed to the infection was tested in vitro in the yeast phase to various substances known to be harmful to certain protoplasmic structures. The test materials were gamma benzine hexaehloride, delta benzine hexaehloride, quinine bisulfate, atabrine, emetine, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetate, aminopterin, para-aminosalicylic acid, urethane and ethyl vanillate. Growth was inhibited by ethyl vanillate in concentrations therapeutically attainable in man.
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