TOXOPLASMA CHORIORETINITIS IN ADULTS: A Preliminary Study of Forty-One Cases Diagnosed by Microscopic Examination

Abstract

Abstract ORGANISMS having the morphologic characteristics of Toxoplasma, some appearing in pseudocysts, have been identified in chorioretinal lesions in 41 eyes removed from patients between the ages of 16 and 72 years. Twenty-seven of these patients were males and 14 were females; 40 were white, and 1 was a Negro. The lesions were unilateral, although in one instance scars of old choroiditis had been observed clinically in the opposite eye. In one patient chorioretinitis followed childbirth....