Prostatism in an Eighteen-Year-Old Boy Due to Infection withCryptococcus neoformans

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Abstract
CRYPTOCOCCOSIS is an acute, subacute or chronic pulmonary, systemic or meningeal mycosis caused by Cryptococcus neoformans. Involvement of the central nervous system is the most constant feature of systemic torulosis and is usually the cause of death.1 The advent of an effective and specific therapeutic agent, amphotericin B, has made the establishment of an etiologic diagnosis mandatory. Since this micro-organism has been readily isolated from barnyard soil and the excreta of pigeons, including their roosting sites,2 it is probably ubiquitous, and suspicion in the minds of clinicians coupled with a laboratory capable of the isolation and identification of this . . .