Disseminated toxoplasmosis presenting as sepsis in two AIDS patients
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 occurred in both cases. At necropsy, an inflammatory reaction and presence of a great number of Toxoplasma gondii cysts and tachyzoites were observed in most organs examined.
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Format: | Digital revista |
Language: | English |
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Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
2007
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Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652007000200009 |
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