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OCULAR CRYPTOCOCCOSIS IN AUSTRALIA, WITH A REPORT OF TWO FURTHER CASES
Author(s) -
Cameron Malcolm E.,
Harrison Andrew
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1970.tb116707.x
Subject(s) - cryptococcosis , retinitis , abnormality , cryptococcus neoformans , lung , epidemiology , pathology , medicine , dermatology , biology , immunology , microbiology and biotechnology , virus , psychiatry , human cytomegalovirus
Two cases of ocular cryptococcosis in Queensland, Australia, one with papillœdema and the other with focal chorio‐retinitis, are described. Fundal photographs of the lesions, as revealed by Intravenous fluorescein, are shown for the first time. The epidemiology is discussed, and the suggestion made that in some cases in which the central nervous system is involved, and X‐ray films of the lung reveal no abnormality, the cryptococcus may have gained access to the body through the gastro‐intestinal tract.