MEDICAL MYCOLOGY IN GREAT BRITAIN

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To the Editor: —In a recent visit to the Medical Mycology Laboratory at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Great Britain, I had an opportunity to become acquainted with the problems of the medical mycologist in that country and learned of the progress which the British have made in this important field of medicine. I believe that a report on medical mycology in Great Britain would be of interest to physicians and medical mycologists in this country. In Britain, public health laboratory workers are being called on more frequently to assist in the diagnosis of mycotic diseases than ever before. To meet this need, this world-famous laboratory of medical mycology has recently expanded its facilities for reference diagnosis and for the teaching of diagnostic methods. The department of medical mycology combines three functions: teaching, mycological reference work and the maintenance of a collection of pathogenic fungi. About