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In both the post and pre combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) era, Pneumocystis jirovecii and Toxoplasma gondii remain common opportunistic infectious agents. The common manifestations are pneumonia for P. jirovecii and brain abscess for T. gondii. Nevertheless, co-infection remains rare, and pulmonary toxoplasmosis is scarce, or may be underestimated because of its similarity with Pneumoc...

Toxoplasmosis is an anthropozoonosis caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular parasite belonging to the phylum Apicomplexa. It presents a cosmopolitan geographic distribution, with high rates of infection in humans; capable of infecting nucleated cells from a wide variety of hosts. Toxoplasmosis is one of the most common opportunistic infections affecting HIV positiv...

Toxoplasma gondii is a rare cause of infection in renal transplant recipients and usually occurs within 3 months of transplantation, this being the period of maximum immunosuppression. We report two cases of toxoplasmosis presenting several years after transplantation. One patient developed Toxoplasma retinitis 4 years after renal transplantation and lost peripheral vision in his affected eye. ...

Encephalitis caused by Toxoplasma gondii is the most common cause of central nervous system damage in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Toxoplasma may infect any of the brain cells, thus leading to non-specific neurotoxoplasmosis clinical manifestations including focused or non-focused signs and symptoms of central nervous system malfunction. Clinical development ranges f...