Abstract
During the past six years the consistent isolation of a diphtheroid organism (Corynebacterium minutissimum) has been accompushed by several investigators (1—7) . The frequency of erythrasma and the accessibility of its superficial lesions to innocuous and repeated biopsies suggested to us that infected skin from patients with this condition could be good material for a study of a bacterial-human-host relationship at the ultra- structural level. Despite the great advances in electron microscopy during recent years, relatively few studies showing bacteria in infected human or animal tissues have been published. The present report describes the fine structural changes taking place in the stratum corneum during invasion by diphteroids in erythrasma.
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