Severe disseminated acute toxoplasmosis in an adult immunocompetent patient from the Colombian Pacific
We present the case of a 72-year-old immunocompetent patient from Chocó, Colombia, with a 12-day course of fever, headache, progressive neurological deterioration, and rapid evolution to multiorgan failure and death. In the histopathological study of tissues obtained at necropsy, tissue cysts morpho...
| Published in: | Biomédica |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Instituto Nacional de Salud
2018
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v38i0.4087 https://doaj.org/article/4f99b2623ba04015ab01b28c2da67adf |
| Summary: | We present the case of a 72-year-old immunocompetent patient from Chocó, Colombia, with a 12-day course of fever, headache, progressive neurological deterioration, and rapid evolution to multiorgan failure and death. In the histopathological study of tissues obtained at necropsy, tissue cysts morphologically suggestive of being bradyzoites of Toxoplasma gondii were identified and confirmed by immunohistochemistry in heart, brain, and striated muscle. |
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