Fulminant toxoplasmosis causing fatal pneumonitis and myocarditis

HIV Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 415-420

  Eza, D E ^a,b   Lucas, Sebastian B ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ASOCIACIÓN BENÉFICA PRISMA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Heart; HIV; Lung; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENTAMIDINE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENCEPHALITIS; FATALITY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; PNEUMONIA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 33746389698     PISSN: 14642662     EISSN: 14681293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1293.2006.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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