Toxoplasmosis as a cause of life‐threatening respiratory distress in a dog receiving immunosuppressive therapy

Disseminated toxoplasmosis is a potentially fatal complication in dogs receiving immunosuppressive therapy, particularly if multiple immunosuppressive drugs are used. Toxoplasmosis should be considered if signs of acute respiratory or hepatic disease develop, and diagnosis would rely on demonstratio...

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Autores principales: Pepper, Amy, Mansfield, Caroline, Stent, Andrew, Johnstone, Thurid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2121
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Johnstone, Thurid
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description Disseminated toxoplasmosis is a potentially fatal complication in dogs receiving immunosuppressive therapy, particularly if multiple immunosuppressive drugs are used. Toxoplasmosis should be considered if signs of acute respiratory or hepatic disease develop, and diagnosis would rely on demonstration of organisms via cytology or PCR rather than a single time‐point serological assay.
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spelling pubmed-65098882019-05-20 Toxoplasmosis as a cause of life‐threatening respiratory distress in a dog receiving immunosuppressive therapy Pepper, Amy Mansfield, Caroline Stent, Andrew Johnstone, Thurid Clin Case Rep Case Reports Disseminated toxoplasmosis is a potentially fatal complication in dogs receiving immunosuppressive therapy, particularly if multiple immunosuppressive drugs are used. Toxoplasmosis should be considered if signs of acute respiratory or hepatic disease develop, and diagnosis would rely on demonstration of organisms via cytology or PCR rather than a single time‐point serological assay. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6509888/ /pubmed/31110720 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2121 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Toxoplasmosis as a cause of life‐threatening respiratory distress in a dog receiving immunosuppressive therapy
title Toxoplasmosis as a cause of life‐threatening respiratory distress in a dog receiving immunosuppressive therapy
title_full Toxoplasmosis as a cause of life‐threatening respiratory distress in a dog receiving immunosuppressive therapy
title_fullStr Toxoplasmosis as a cause of life‐threatening respiratory distress in a dog receiving immunosuppressive therapy
title_full_unstemmed Toxoplasmosis as a cause of life‐threatening respiratory distress in a dog receiving immunosuppressive therapy
title_short Toxoplasmosis as a cause of life‐threatening respiratory distress in a dog receiving immunosuppressive therapy
title_sort toxoplasmosis as a cause of life‐threatening respiratory distress in a dog receiving immunosuppressive therapy
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2121
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