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Letter to the Editor
Viridans group Streptococcus subretinal abscess
  1. NICOLE R RIMPEL,
  2. EMMETT T CUNNINGHAM JR,
  3. EDWARD L HOWES JR,
  4. ROBERT Y KIM
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, San Francisco General Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco, USA
  1. Dr R Y Kim, UCSF Department of Ophthalmology K301, 10 Kirkham Street, San Francisco, CA 94143–0730, USA.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.83.3.373

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    Editor,—Subretinal abscess is an unusual entity, occurring primarily in immunocompromised individuals. Reported causative organisms include fungi1 2 and Gram negative rods.3 4 Here we report a subretinal infection resulting from the Gram positive organism viridans groupStreptococcus in a pancytopenic patient.

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