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Advances and Challenges in Diagnostics of Toxoplasmosis in HIV-Infected Patients

Toxoplasma gondii is a worldwide distributed protozoan parasite. This apicomplexan parasite infects one-third of the population worldwide, causing toxoplasmosis, considered one of the neglected parasitic infections. In healthy humans, most infections are asymptomatic. However, in immunocompromised p...

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Autores principales: Wesołowski, Roland, Pawłowska, Marta, Smoguła, Małgorzata, Szewczyk-Golec, Karolina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9862295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36678458
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12010110
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author Wesołowski, Roland
Pawłowska, Marta
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description Toxoplasma gondii is a worldwide distributed protozoan parasite. This apicomplexan parasite infects one-third of the population worldwide, causing toxoplasmosis, considered one of the neglected parasitic infections. In healthy humans, most infections are asymptomatic. However, in immunocompromised patients, the course of the disease can be life-threatening. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients have a very high burden of Toxoplasma gondii co-infection. Thus, it is essential to use modern, sensitive, and specific methods to properly monitor the course of toxoplasmosis in immunodeficient patients.
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spelling pubmed-98622952023-01-22 Advances and Challenges in Diagnostics of Toxoplasmosis in HIV-Infected Patients Wesołowski, Roland Pawłowska, Marta Smoguła, Małgorzata Szewczyk-Golec, Karolina Pathogens Review Toxoplasma gondii is a worldwide distributed protozoan parasite. This apicomplexan parasite infects one-third of the population worldwide, causing toxoplasmosis, considered one of the neglected parasitic infections. In healthy humans, most infections are asymptomatic. However, in immunocompromised patients, the course of the disease can be life-threatening. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients have a very high burden of Toxoplasma gondii co-infection. Thus, it is essential to use modern, sensitive, and specific methods to properly monitor the course of toxoplasmosis in immunodeficient patients. MDPI 2023-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9862295/ /pubmed/36678458 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12010110 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12010110
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