Ocular Aspects of Mycotic Infection

Birge, Henry L.

doi:10.1001/archopht.1952.01700030362011

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“…are commonly associated with eye pathology in higher animals (Birge 1952). although such infections are usually variable and may be comprised solely of superficial infections, or be systemic.…”

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Induction of clinical aspergillomycosis by feeding contaminated diet to tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.)

Olufemi

Roberts

1986

Journal of Fish Diseases

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Oreochromis niloticus maintained at 17°C and 26°C were fed a pelleted diet contaminated with cultures of Aspergillus flavus fungus. Affected fish stopped feeding within one week, and became inactive, dark and oedematous. Exophthalmia, often accompanied by corneal or humoral changes, was common and mortahties commenced after 4 weeks. Surviving fish were sacrificed after 5 weeks and the fungus was isolated from all organs, including-irregularly-the eye. The histopathology was predominantly that of a necrotizing septicaemia, with fungal hyphae present in hver, peritoneum, kidney, intestinal wall and, distinctively, in the orbit and eye of affected fish.

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Induction of clinical aspergillomycosis by feeding contaminated diet to tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.)

Olufemi

Roberts

1986

Journal of Fish Diseases

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“…Todos os pacientes eram da forma clínica virchowiana. A duração da doença variou de A exposição quase permanente da conjuntiva ao meio externo é, talvez, a razão mais lógica para explicar a existência de uma flora micótica na conjuntiva sadia, variável segundo a procedência dos indivíduos e sua ocupação (4)(5)(6)(7)(9)(10)12) .…”

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“…Para alguns autores (6)(7)(9)(10)(12)(13) a positividade e o gênero de fungos encontrados na conjuntiva são variáveis, existindo dificuldade de isolar o mesmo fungo quando repetido os exames em épocas diferentes no mesmo indivíduo. Santos et al (14) estudaram a variação sazonal da microbiota fúngica em indivíduos sadios, com AIDS e HIV soro-positivo, e não foi possível isolar o mesmo fungo desses indivíduos nas diferentes estações do ano (6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(12)(13)(14) .…”

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“…A microbiota conjuntival pode ser fonte de processos infecciosos quando o equilíbrio entre os processos de defesa está rompido (5) . Sabe-se que a microbiota bacteriana e micótica da conjuntiva ocular de indivíduos sadios permanece em equilíbrio que pode ser alterado por alterações da imunidade presente principalmente em doenças crônicas, uso de corticoterapia e antibioticoterapia tópica, facilitando o crescimento de fungos e tornando o tecido corneano mais susceptível a invasão destes microorganismos (6)(7)(8)(9)(10) .…”

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Estudo da microbiota fúngica da conjuntiva ocular em portadores de hanseníase e seus comunicantes

Santos¹,

Melo

Martins

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Arq. Bras. Oftalmol.

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“…This fact is emphasized when one sees no references to this primary localized infection in current medical bacteriology or mycology texts, manuals, and reviews (Wilson, and Miles, 1957;Dubos, 1958; Lewis et al, 1958;Conant et al, 1954;Rosebury, 1944). Although Birge (1952) discussed the occurrence of Actinomyces bovis in lacrimal concretions, the confusion of nomenclature and the paucity of information characterizing isolates in ophthalmological literature do not permit one to know with certainty the etiologic agents involved. Awerbach (1903), Griuter (1933), Ruys (1935), Hagedoorn (1940), Moore (1952), and Smith (1953) have satisfactorily identified Actinomyces species in concretions from the lacrimal canaliculus of the eye.…”

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