CRYPTOCOCCOSIS: CLINICAL FEATURES AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
Authors: D R NICHOLS, W J MARTIN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1955)

Article1 October 1955CRYPTOCOCCOSIS: CLINICAL FEATURES AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSISDONALD R. NICHOLS, M.D., WILLIAM J. MARTIN, M.D.DONALD R. NICHOLS, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, WILLIAM J. MARTIN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-43-4-767 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptCryptococcosis (torulosis) is an infection which occurs more frequently than is generally appreciated. Clinically the early diagnosis of this disease is difficult. However, if the possibility of cryptococcosis is considered in the differential diagnosis of any chronic infection or of any disease of obscure origin, the diagnosis might be made more frequently.Cryptococcosis is caused by a yeastlike fungus,Cryptococcus neoformans(Torula histolytica). Infections caused by this organism usually terminate in fatal meningo-encephalitis. However, the fact that lesions elsewhere in the body often precede the lesions in the central nervous system is sometimes overlooked. Often signs and symptoms produced by...Bibliography1. TinneySchmidt WSHW: Torula infection, M. Clin. North America 28: 950 (July) 1944. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. WadeStevenson LJLD: Torula infection, Yale J. Biol. and Med. 13: 467, 1941. MedlineGoogle Scholar3. CoxTolhurst LBJC: Human torulosis: a clinical, pathological and microbiological study, with a report of thirteen cases, 1946, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. Google Scholar4. VoylesBeck GQEM: Systemic infection due to Torula histolytica (Cryptococcus hominis). I. Report of four cases and review of the literature, Arch. Int. Med. 77: 504, 1946. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. 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