Severe cerebral toxoplasma infection cannot be excluded by a normnal CT scan

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 150-152

  Weenink, J J ^a,c   Weenink, A G ^a   Geerlings, S E ^b   van Gool, T ^b   Bemelman, F J ^a  

^a Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam CINIMA   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Cerebral toxoplasmosis; MRI; Renal transplantation; Toxoplasma encephalitis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; FOLINIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADIAZINE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; FATALITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEROLOGY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL;

EID: 65349145367     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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