Pulmonary toxoplasmosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in the era of antiretroviral therapy

Toxoplasmosis is a severe opportunistic infection in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The lung is a major site of infection after the central nervous system. In this report we described two cases of pneumonia due to Toxoplasma gondii infection in HIV patients with antir...

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Autores principales: Velásquez, Jorge N, Ledesma, Bibiana A, Nigro, Monica G, Vittar, Natalia, Rueda, Nestor, De Carolis, Luis, Figueiras, Olga, Carnevale, Silvana, Corti, Marcelo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26933317
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.173063
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author Velásquez, Jorge N
Ledesma, Bibiana A
Nigro, Monica G
Vittar, Natalia
Rueda, Nestor
De Carolis, Luis
Figueiras, Olga
Carnevale, Silvana
Corti, Marcelo
author_facet Velásquez, Jorge N
Ledesma, Bibiana A
Nigro, Monica G
Vittar, Natalia
Rueda, Nestor
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Figueiras, Olga
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Corti, Marcelo
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description Toxoplasmosis is a severe opportunistic infection in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The lung is a major site of infection after the central nervous system. In this report we described two cases of pneumonia due to Toxoplasma gondii infection in HIV patients with antiretroviral therapy. Clinical and radiological abnormalities are not specific. Pulmonary toxoplasmosis should be considered in HIV-infected patients with late stage of HIV, CD4 count less than 100 cells/µl and a poor adherence to HAART.
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spelling pubmed-47486752016-03-01 Pulmonary toxoplasmosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in the era of antiretroviral therapy Velásquez, Jorge N Ledesma, Bibiana A Nigro, Monica G Vittar, Natalia Rueda, Nestor De Carolis, Luis Figueiras, Olga Carnevale, Silvana Corti, Marcelo Lung India Case Report Toxoplasmosis is a severe opportunistic infection in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The lung is a major site of infection after the central nervous system. In this report we described two cases of pneumonia due to Toxoplasma gondii infection in HIV patients with antiretroviral therapy. Clinical and radiological abnormalities are not specific. Pulmonary toxoplasmosis should be considered in HIV-infected patients with late stage of HIV, CD4 count less than 100 cells/µl and a poor adherence to HAART. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4748675/ /pubmed/26933317 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.173063 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Velásquez, Jorge N
Ledesma, Bibiana A
Nigro, Monica G
Vittar, Natalia
Rueda, Nestor
De Carolis, Luis
Figueiras, Olga
Carnevale, Silvana
Corti, Marcelo
Pulmonary toxoplasmosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in the era of antiretroviral therapy
title Pulmonary toxoplasmosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in the era of antiretroviral therapy
title_full Pulmonary toxoplasmosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in the era of antiretroviral therapy
title_fullStr Pulmonary toxoplasmosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in the era of antiretroviral therapy
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary toxoplasmosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in the era of antiretroviral therapy
title_short Pulmonary toxoplasmosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in the era of antiretroviral therapy
title_sort pulmonary toxoplasmosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in the era of antiretroviral therapy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26933317
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.173063
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