Atypical strain of Toxoplasma gondii causing fatal reactivation after hematopoietic stem cell transplantion in a patient with an underlying immunological deficiency

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2686-2690

  Štajner, Tijana ^a   Vasiljević, Zorica ^b   Vujić, Dragana ^a,b   Marković, Marija ^a   Ristić, Goran ^b   Mićić, Dragan ^b   Pašić, Srdjan ^a,b   Ivović, Vladimir ^a   Ajzenberg, Daniel ^c,d   Djurković Djaković, Olgica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Mother and Child Health Care Institute of Serbia Dr Vukan Cupic   (Serbia)

^c DUPUYTREN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUDARABINE;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GENE FREQUENCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NIJMEGEN BREAKAGE SYNDROME; PARASITE LOAD; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEPSIS; T CELL LEUKEMIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; FATAL OUTCOME; GENOTYPE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 84880644407     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01077-13     Document Type: Article

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