Endogenous fungus endophthalmitis due to Candida albicans.

Abstract

ENDOGENOUS fungus infections of the inner eye are rare, actinomycete, blastomycete, and aspergillus being the most frequent causative organisms. After the introduction of corticosteroids there was a 15-fold increase in ocular mycosis and fungi of low pathogenicity have produced ocular lesions. Monilia Candida albicans has been reported to produce metastatic retinal or chorio-retinal lesions (van Buren, 1958;