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Acute Seronegative Toxoplasma gondii Hepatitis Allergic to First-Line Treatment

Toxoplasma gondii infects up to one-third of the world's population, making it the protozoan that most infects people worldwide. Among the forms of presentation of toxoplasmosis, hepatitis is probably the least frequent with only a few case reports in the world's medical literature. Despit...

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Autores principales: De la Garza-Salazar, Fernando, Cortéz-Hernández, Carlos Alejandro, Decanini-Arcaute, Horacio, Camacho-Ortiz, Adrián
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5902078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29808131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1951936
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author De la Garza-Salazar, Fernando
Cortéz-Hernández, Carlos Alejandro
Decanini-Arcaute, Horacio
Camacho-Ortiz, Adrián
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Cortéz-Hernández, Carlos Alejandro
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description Toxoplasma gondii infects up to one-third of the world's population, making it the protozoan that most infects people worldwide. Among the forms of presentation of toxoplasmosis, hepatitis is probably the least frequent with only a few case reports in the world's medical literature. Despite the fact that the first diagnostic test is the serology using the ELISA technique because its sensitivity is close to 100% in our case, it was reported negative. The biopsy gave the definitive diagnosis, and we were able to start treatment immediately. Although the first line of treatment is sulfadiazine and pyrimethamine, our sulfate allergic patient received an alternative regimen of doxycycline, clindamycin, and azithromycin with a good response. This is the only case of Toxoplasma hepatitis reported in Mexico and the only one in the world with negative serology with a good response to second-line treatment.
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spelling pubmed-59020782018-05-28 Acute Seronegative Toxoplasma gondii Hepatitis Allergic to First-Line Treatment De la Garza-Salazar, Fernando Cortéz-Hernández, Carlos Alejandro Decanini-Arcaute, Horacio Camacho-Ortiz, Adrián Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Toxoplasma gondii infects up to one-third of the world's population, making it the protozoan that most infects people worldwide. Among the forms of presentation of toxoplasmosis, hepatitis is probably the least frequent with only a few case reports in the world's medical literature. Despite the fact that the first diagnostic test is the serology using the ELISA technique because its sensitivity is close to 100% in our case, it was reported negative. The biopsy gave the definitive diagnosis, and we were able to start treatment immediately. Although the first line of treatment is sulfadiazine and pyrimethamine, our sulfate allergic patient received an alternative regimen of doxycycline, clindamycin, and azithromycin with a good response. This is the only case of Toxoplasma hepatitis reported in Mexico and the only one in the world with negative serology with a good response to second-line treatment. Hindawi 2018-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5902078/ /pubmed/29808131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1951936 Text en Copyright © 2018 Fernando De la Garza-Salazar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cortéz-Hernández, Carlos Alejandro
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Camacho-Ortiz, Adrián
Acute Seronegative Toxoplasma gondii Hepatitis Allergic to First-Line Treatment
title Acute Seronegative Toxoplasma gondii Hepatitis Allergic to First-Line Treatment
title_full Acute Seronegative Toxoplasma gondii Hepatitis Allergic to First-Line Treatment
title_fullStr Acute Seronegative Toxoplasma gondii Hepatitis Allergic to First-Line Treatment
title_full_unstemmed Acute Seronegative Toxoplasma gondii Hepatitis Allergic to First-Line Treatment
title_short Acute Seronegative Toxoplasma gondii Hepatitis Allergic to First-Line Treatment
title_sort acute seronegative toxoplasma gondii hepatitis allergic to first-line treatment
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5902078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29808131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1951936
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