Toxoplasma Encephalitis in Atypical Hosts at an Academic Cancer Center

Toxoplasma encephalitis is a well recognized complication of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, solid organ transplantation, and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). However, patients with hematologic malignancies not treated with allogeneic HSCT may also develop this conditi...

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Autores principales: Morjaria, Sejal, Epstein, David J., Romero, Fabian A., Taur, Ying, Seo, Susan K., Papanicolaou, Genovefa A., Hatzoglou, Vaios, Rosenblum, Marc, Perales, Miguel-Angel, Scordo, Michael, Kaltsas, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4834739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27096140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw070
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author Morjaria, Sejal
Epstein, David J.
Romero, Fabian A.
Taur, Ying
Seo, Susan K.
Papanicolaou, Genovefa A.
Hatzoglou, Vaios
Rosenblum, Marc
Perales, Miguel-Angel
Scordo, Michael
Kaltsas, Anna
author_facet Morjaria, Sejal
Epstein, David J.
Romero, Fabian A.
Taur, Ying
Seo, Susan K.
Papanicolaou, Genovefa A.
Hatzoglou, Vaios
Rosenblum, Marc
Perales, Miguel-Angel
Scordo, Michael
Kaltsas, Anna
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description Toxoplasma encephalitis is a well recognized complication of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, solid organ transplantation, and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). However, patients with hematologic malignancies not treated with allogeneic HSCT may also develop this condition, which requires high clinical suspicion and consideration for prophylactic therapy.
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spelling pubmed-48347392016-04-19 Toxoplasma Encephalitis in Atypical Hosts at an Academic Cancer Center Morjaria, Sejal Epstein, David J. Romero, Fabian A. Taur, Ying Seo, Susan K. Papanicolaou, Genovefa A. Hatzoglou, Vaios Rosenblum, Marc Perales, Miguel-Angel Scordo, Michael Kaltsas, Anna Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports Toxoplasma encephalitis is a well recognized complication of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, solid organ transplantation, and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). However, patients with hematologic malignancies not treated with allogeneic HSCT may also develop this condition, which requires high clinical suspicion and consideration for prophylactic therapy. Oxford University Press 2016-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4834739/ /pubmed/27096140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw070 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
spellingShingle Brief Reports
Morjaria, Sejal
Epstein, David J.
Romero, Fabian A.
Taur, Ying
Seo, Susan K.
Papanicolaou, Genovefa A.
Hatzoglou, Vaios
Rosenblum, Marc
Perales, Miguel-Angel
Scordo, Michael
Kaltsas, Anna
Toxoplasma Encephalitis in Atypical Hosts at an Academic Cancer Center
title Toxoplasma Encephalitis in Atypical Hosts at an Academic Cancer Center
title_full Toxoplasma Encephalitis in Atypical Hosts at an Academic Cancer Center
title_fullStr Toxoplasma Encephalitis in Atypical Hosts at an Academic Cancer Center
title_full_unstemmed Toxoplasma Encephalitis in Atypical Hosts at an Academic Cancer Center
title_short Toxoplasma Encephalitis in Atypical Hosts at an Academic Cancer Center
title_sort toxoplasma encephalitis in atypical hosts at an academic cancer center
topic Brief Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4834739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27096140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw070
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