Relative Incidence of Candida Albicans11From the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota. On the Skins of Persons with and Without Skin Diseases**At the Third International Microbiological Congress which met in New York in 1939, an informal committee agreed to abandon the botanically incorrect name Monilia albicans and employ the term Candida albicans. Practically all laboratory and clinical medical mycologists have since then used this nomenclature.