Disseminated toxoplasmosis presenting as sepsis in two AIDS patients Toxoplasmose disseminada sepse símile em dois pacientes com AIDS

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Carlos José Dornas Gonçalves Barbosa, Rodrigo Juliano Molina, Murilo Barcelos de Souza, Ana Cristina A. Silva, Adilha Rua Micheletti, Marlene Antonia dos Reis, Vicente de Paula Antunes Teixeira, Mario León Silva-Vergara
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2007
• Subjects: AIDS; Acute disseminated toxoplasmosis; Sepsis; Toxoplasma gondii; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Aguda
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652007000200009; https://doaj.org/article/331ecf5884864ffe904da171bfc3c1f7

This report describes two patients who presented acute disseminated and severe toxoplasmosis as the first opportunistic disease related to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. At admission, clinical and laboratory findings were similar to sepsis or septic shock and a fast evolutive course to death oc...