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Schenck's disease
Also known as:
Beurmann disease
Beurmann-Gougerot disease
Associated persons:
Charles Lucien de Beurmann
Henri Gougerot
Benjamin Robinson Schenck
Description:
A chronic disease, occurring in two forms, caused by the fungus Sporothrix schencki. In the disseminated type there is lymphatic spread to involve muskuloskeletal system, gastrointestinal system, and nervous system. The pulmonary type is marked mainly by pneumonia. Sporothrix schenckii was renamed Sporotrichum beurmanni after more thorough studies upon it by de Beurmann in 1903
Bibliography:
- B. R. Schenk:
On refractory subcutaneous abscesses caused by the fungus possibly related to the Sporotricha.
Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, 1896, 9: 286-290.
- C. L. de Beurmann and H. Gougerot:
Les sporotrichoses. Paris, F. Alcan, 1912.
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