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Abstract: BACKGROUND: To study incidence and risk factors of toxoplasmosis, including the prognostic value of high toxoplasma antibody titres, in a cohort of HIV-infected patients. METHODS: 1699 HIV+ subjects were followed in the French SEROCO/HEMOCO cohorts between 1988 and 1995. Toxoplasma antibody titres were quantified at e ...
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Abstract: Opportunistic Infections & Other Complications: Toxoplasmosis. Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) Perspective, Vol. 5, No. 2 - July 1993 * 127 Broadway E. Ste 200 Seattle, WA 98102 Laury McKean, RNThe biggest news in toxoplasmosis at the conference concerned the use of TMP-SMX for primary prophyl ...
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Abstract: <p><b>BACKGROUND:</b> To study incidence and risk factors of toxoplasmosis, including the prognostic value of high toxoplasma antibody titres, in a cohort of HIV-infected patients. </p> <p><b>METHODS:</b> 1699 HIV+ subjects were followed in the French SEROCO/HEMOCO cohorts between 1988 and 1995. Toxoplasma antibody ...
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Abstract: <p><b>BACKGROUND:</b> The Δ32 deletion has been found to delay progression to immunodeficiency in HIV-infected patients. Here we examined whether the deletion confers a specific protection against toxoplasmosis occurrence. </p> <p><b>METHODS:</b> 1489 Caucasian HIV-infected subjects from the French HEMOCO (haemophil ...
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Abstract: Objectives: To confirm absence of clinical toxoplasmosis in asymptomatic mothers even when pregnancy immunosuppression is combined with HIV-positive status. To evaluate potential risk of congenital toxoplasmosis and necessity of prophylactic treatment. Methods: Toxoplasmosis antibodies cinetic and parasitemia were per ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVES: We retrospectively evaluated routine detection of Toxoplasma gondii by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the B1 gene and the TGR 1E sequence in blood and CSF samples from patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and suspected toxoplasmosis. METHODS: From January 1993 to Febru ...
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Abstract: To confirm absence of clinical toxoplasmosis in asymptomatic mothers even when pregnancy immunosuppression is combined with HIV-positive status. To evaluate potential risk of congenital toxoplasmosis and necessity of prophylactic treatment. <p><b>METHODS</b>: Toxoplasmosis antibodies cinetic and parasitemia were perf ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To summarize current knowledge of prophylaxis and treatment of AIDS-related toxoplasmosis. DATA SOURCES: A MEDLINE search (1985-1994) was used to identify pertinent literature, including reviews. STUDY SELECTION AND DATA EXTRACTION: All articles were considered for possible inclusion in the review. Pertinen ...
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Abstract: <p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>: To review all AIDS patients with a diagnosis of toxoplasmosis who presented between March 1986 and February 1990, and in particular to assess the usefulness of serology in diagnosis.</p> <p><b>METHODS</b>: Clinical case histories, radiological reports, serological results and histopathological f ...
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Abstract: <p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>: To study epidemiology, clinical features, survival and opportunistic infections (OI) associated with CNS toxoplasmosis.</p> <p><b>METHODS</b>: We studied 87 (20,4%) individuals diagnosed with CNS toxoplasmosis from 426 AIDS patients (CDC-criteria) attended at our Hospital between Dec 85 and Dec ...
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Abstract: e disease. Neuro-imaging of CNS toxoplasmosis revealed mainly single in CT but multiple in MRI focal lesions. Therapy with sulfadiazine was often associated with side-effects. The prophylaxis of CNS toxoplasmosis can be insufficient in ...
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Abstract: BACKGROUND: Cerebral toxoplasmosis -one from leading opportunistic infections. The purpose of our work was to study clinical data and toxoplasmosis status in the structure of opportunistic diseases in AIDS patients. METHODS: Clinical analysis of all cases of toxoplasmosis among AIDS patients during last 5 year Epidemic ...
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Abstract: <p><b>BACKGROUND:</b> CNS mass lesions, especially toxoplasmosis and lymphoma, are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in AIDS patients. Clinical and radiographic (CT or MRI) criteria have generally not been useful for determining the etiology of these lesions. Brain biopsy remains the gold standard. Thalli ...
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Abstract: Toxoplasmosis of the central nervous system (CNS) is the most common cause of intracerebral lesions in patients with AIDS. It is now standard clinical practice to treat empirically, based on clinical and radiographic findings, and to perform a biopsy of the lesion only in those patients who fail to have a clinical and ...
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Abstract: Cerebral toxoplasmosis is a common, opportunistic, and often life-threatening disease in HIV-infected patients. Diagnosis is supported mainly by clinical evidence and computerized tomography or magnetic resonance imaging scans, but brain images may share features with other brain diseases occurring in HIV-infected pat ...
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Abstract: Toxoplasmosis has regained clinical importance. In addition to intrauterine fetal infections, the acquired toxoplasmosis endangers an increasing number of immunocompromised adults. This disease affects not only oncologic patients, but also organ transplant recipients and, above all, AIDS patients. Toxoplasmosis has fi ...
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Abstract: Toxoplasmosis is a chronic, latent infection which can be reactivated in the presence of immunosuppression. The critical question in obstetrics is whether toxoplasmosis may be reactivated in the presence of the physiological immunosuppression of pregnancy. Standard in vitro tests, done in 24 healthy pregnant women and ...
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Abstract: Issued from a national survey, we report 67 cases of DT (two visceral localizations at least) in HIV infected patients, diagnosed in France from January 1990 to September 1992. The prevalence of DT in these patients can be estimated to 0,6 per 100 patient-years. Before the diagnosis of DT, 4 patients had no serological ...
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Abstract: Toxoplasmosis of the central nervous system in patients with AIDS in Mexico.. Arch Med Res. 1997 Winter;28(4)527-30. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/98088854 del Rio-Chiriboga C; Orzechowski-Rallo A; Sanchez-Mejorada G; Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Angeles del Pedregal, Mexico, D.F. Abstract: ...
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Abstract: Toxoplasmosis is the major cause of morbidity and mortality among patients with AIDS and can be responsible for the first symptoms of the disease. After reviewing 160 autopsies of AIDS patients with neurologic abnormalities we found 60 with cerebral toxoplasmosis. We made a retrospective evaluation of their clinical sy ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To determine whether long-term maintenance treatment for toxoplasmosis protects against Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). DESIGN: Cohort study. SETTING: Switzerland . PATIENTS: A total of 453 patients with ...
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Abstract: <p><b>BACKGROUND:</b> Cerebral toxoplasmosis is the commonest opportunistic infection of the central nerveux system in AIDS patients. Few data have been documentedon this issue. OBJECTIVES: In order to improve the medical care of AIDS patients in Cameroon we have carried out a study on the clinical manaifestations an ...
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Abstract: Neurocysticercosis, prevalent wherever pigs are raised in the presence of poor sanitation, is the most common identifiable cause of new-onset epilepsy throughout the developing world. As immigration patterns have changed, children with neurocysticercosis are seen throughout the United Stat ...
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Abstract: BACKGROUND: CNS mass lesions, especially toxoplasmosis and lymphoma, are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in AIDS patients. Clinical and radiographic (CT or MRI) criteria have generally not been useful for determining the etiology of these lesions. Brain biopsy remains the gold standard. Thallium-201 SPEC ...
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Abstract: We have examined laboratory reports of toxoplasmosis received by the PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre between January 1981 and December 1992 in order to describe epidemiological trends in the three main clinical manifestations of toxoplasmosis-lymphadenopathy, eye disease, and neurological disease; and th ...
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Abstract: PCR was used to evaluate the occurrence of Toxoplasma gondii parasitemia by detection of the B1 gene in blood samples in two groups of immunosuppressed patients (148 subjects) suspected of having cerebral or extracerebral infection, respectively. Group I consisted of 52 patients with AIDS with suspected cerebral toxop ...
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Abstract: Toxoplasma gondii, an intracellular coccidian protozoan, is the causative agent of toxoplasmosis, a widespread infection affecting various birds and mammals including humans. In immunocompetent hosts, the infection is usually asymptomatic and benign. Toxoplasmosis is either congenital or acquired. In general, prenatal ...
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Abstract: We reviewed the histological features of untreated toxoplasmosis in 18 cases with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), eight of which were surgical biopsies and 10 of which were autopsy specimens. The results were compared according to the clinical status of the patient at the time the diagnosis of toxoplasm ...
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Abstract: OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the extent to which various titer of antibodies to toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) predict the occurrence of clinical toxoplasmosis among AIDS patients in Sao Paulo, Brazil . METHODS: We used an observational and analytic case control study, where the 45 cases ...
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Abstract: </p> <p><b>OBJECTIVES</b>: To evaluate the extent to which various titer of antibodies to toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) predict the occurrence of clinical toxoplasmosis among AIDS patients in Sao Paulo, Brazil .</p> <p><b>METHODS</b>: We used an observational and analytic case control study, where the 45 cases were s ...
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