TORULA HISTOLYTICA MENINGOENCEPHALITIS

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  • MMMark Marshall
    Mark Marshall
  • RTR. Wallace Teed
    R. Wallace Teed
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Abstract
Human infection with the various pathogenic yeasts is not of frequent occurrence. This is particularly true of torulosis, which must be classed as an extremely rare disease. When it is considered that the torulae are found on normal skin, in the human throat and gastrointestinal tract, in milk, on various plants and in the bodies of many insects, as pointed out by Wade and Stevenson,1it is surprising that infection does not occur more often. When it has occurred, however, it has usually been fatal. While in most of the cases reported there was involvement of the central nervous system, a few presented localized involvement in other parts of the body. In these cases the mortality has not been so great. Brewer and Wood,2for example, reported healing of a localized abscess over the dorsolumbar spine following incision and drainage. A patient with a torular pelvic abscess observed

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