TORULA HISTOLYTICA MENINGO-ENCEPHALITIS

Abstract

Summaries of the knowledge concerning infections in man caused byTorula histolyticahave been made from time to time since Stoddard and Cutler's1monograph was published; the most recent reports are those by Shapiro and Neal,2and by Rappaport and Kaplan.3In 1925, Shapiro and Neal, mentioned thirteen reports then recorded. They added another case and included a personal communication from Sheppe, thus making the total number of reported cases at that time fifteen, of which thirteen were infections of the central nervous system, one of the lungs and one of the muscles of the back. Rappaport and Kaplan reported a systemic torulosis and McKendree and Cornwall4in the same year reported an infection of the brain and meninges. An account by Hansmann5in 1924 of a case of meningitis and encephalitis caused byTorulais not mentioned by these investigators. Lynch and Rose6reported