BRUCELLOSIS may be a widely disseminated disease in which lesions of the eye not infrequently occur. Green,1 in a review of the eye lesions associated with brucellosis, collected 28 cases from the literature and added four of his own. The retina, optic nerve, uveal tract, cornea and ocular muscles were involved. Treatment of the primary disease has been more effective since the newer chemotherapeutic and antibiotic agents have been introduced.
Woods,2 discussing the treatment of ocular brucellosis, states:
Streptomycin has some action. It has recently been shown in experimental animals that the combination of streptomycin and sulfadiazine has a greater therapeutic action than might be expected by mere summation. Such treatment has not yet been employed in human chronic infections to allow valid conclusions to be drawn.
This paper describes a case which responded satisfactorily to combined streptomycin and sulfadiazine therapy.
REPORT OF A CASE
A 21 year