Disseminated toxoplasmosis: Unusual presentations in the immunocompromised host

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 869-873

  Arnold, Scott J ^a   Kinney, Marsha C ^a   Scott McCormick, M ^a   Dummer, Stephen ^a   Scott, Margie A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; SEPSIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; CHILD; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; SKIN; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 0030848278     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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