Observations with Chinofungin powder

Chinofungin powder was used in 75 recruits, in 40 cases for prevention, in 35 cases for the treatment of manifesting mycotic alteration. After a three-week treatment with the product recovery was obtained in 54.3%, improvement in 28.6% of the cases. No change was observed among the blastomycetic infection cases. In 5 of the 40 healthy individuals (12.5%) the cultivation became positive for fungus by the end of the three-week observations period. According to the opinion of the authors non-compliance was responsible for the infections which occurred during the preventive treatment.