TORULA HISTOLYTICA (CRYPTOCOCCUS HOMINIS) MENINGITIS: CASE REPORT AND THERAPEUTIC EXPERIMENTS

1 May 1945

journal article
research article
Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine

Vol. 22 (5), 736-745
https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-22-5-736

Abstract

Penicillin and sulfadiazene were without significant effect in exptl. Torula infection in mice, and neither showed inhibition of growth of Torula in vitro. Treatment of a human case of Torula infection with 300 mg. of gentian violet intraven. daily for 7 days and with 180 mg. of thymol in oil intramusc. for 7 days was without apparent effect.

Keywords

MENINGITIS
CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS

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TORULA MENINGITIS
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1942

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