Case Report
Rhodotorula Endogenous Endophthalmitis: A Novel Harbinger of the Injection Drug Epidemic in the United States
Table 1
Rhodotorula endogenous endophthalmitis cases to present.
| | Year | Country | Age/sex | Coinfection | History of IDU | Affected eye | Treatment | Visual outcome |
| | 2001 [4] | Italy | 27/M | Hepatitis C | Positive | Right | IA + oral ketoconazole | Uncertain light perception | | 2002 [5] | Canada | 26/M | HIV | Positive | Right | IA + SA | Enucleation | | USA | 21/M | Hepatitis C | Positive | Left | IA + oral posaconazole | No light perception |
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current case presented
HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
IA: intravitreal amphotericin B, SA: systemic amphotericin B.
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