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Pulmonary and Renal Toxoplasmosis in an Immunocompetent Adult Patient

Toxoplasmosis is caused by the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii), which is one of the most widespread zoonotic pathogens known today. It is a global health hazard as they infect 30-50% of the world’s human population. Acute toxoplasmosis is usually asymptomatic and self-limited in imm...

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Autores principales: Pangracio, Erika, de Macedo, Viviane, Alves, Priscilla Koppe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9990707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36896370
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jmc4029
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author Pangracio, Erika
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description Toxoplasmosis is caused by the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii), which is one of the most widespread zoonotic pathogens known today. It is a global health hazard as they infect 30-50% of the world’s human population. Acute toxoplasmosis is usually asymptomatic and self-limited in immunocompetent people, recovering without treatment and do not require specific therapy. Therefore, rare complications are associated with infection in the individuals with normal immune systems. However, we present a rare case of an immunocompetent man with acute T. gondii infection confirmed by serology, subsequently presented with two life-threatening organ dysfunctions: severe renal and pulmonary involvement, requiring hospitalization and anti-parasitic treatment.
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spelling pubmed-99907072023-03-08 Pulmonary and Renal Toxoplasmosis in an Immunocompetent Adult Patient Pangracio, Erika de Macedo, Viviane Alves, Priscilla Koppe J Med Cases Case Report Toxoplasmosis is caused by the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii), which is one of the most widespread zoonotic pathogens known today. It is a global health hazard as they infect 30-50% of the world’s human population. Acute toxoplasmosis is usually asymptomatic and self-limited in immunocompetent people, recovering without treatment and do not require specific therapy. Therefore, rare complications are associated with infection in the individuals with normal immune systems. However, we present a rare case of an immunocompetent man with acute T. gondii infection confirmed by serology, subsequently presented with two life-threatening organ dysfunctions: severe renal and pulmonary involvement, requiring hospitalization and anti-parasitic treatment. Elmer Press 2023-02 2023-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9990707/ /pubmed/36896370 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jmc4029 Text en Copyright 2023, Pangracio et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pulmonary and Renal Toxoplasmosis in an Immunocompetent Adult Patient
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title_full Pulmonary and Renal Toxoplasmosis in an Immunocompetent Adult Patient
title_fullStr Pulmonary and Renal Toxoplasmosis in an Immunocompetent Adult Patient
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary and Renal Toxoplasmosis in an Immunocompetent Adult Patient
title_short Pulmonary and Renal Toxoplasmosis in an Immunocompetent Adult Patient
title_sort pulmonary and renal toxoplasmosis in an immunocompetent adult patient
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9990707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36896370
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jmc4029
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