Experimental keratitis by candida albicans and aspergillus fumigatus in rabbits

ABSTRACT

The pathogenicity of Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus to the corena of both previously cortisonized and uncortisonized rabbit eyes was studied of uncortisonized animals for the tested fungal strain were low. While it was observed that the previously cortisonized animals were highly susceptible to such tested organisms. The clinical picture of the infected corneal tissue showed that there was characteristic pathognomonic lesions for each tested fungal pathogen. Histopathological erxamination of the infected corneal lesions revealed the presence of some pathological signs which emphasized the possibility of contracting such fungal infection