introduction: toxoplasmosis is a parasitic infection cause by toxoplasma gondii. this parasite is associated with congenital infection and can cause abortion, encephalitis or systemic infection in immune- compromised patients. case presentation in this study, two cases of central nervous system toxoplasmosis in leukemia patients are reported. the first case was a 15-year-old girl with acute lym...

Neurologic signs and symptoms may represent the initial presentation of AIDS in 10-30% of patients. Movement disorders may be the result of direct central nervous system infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or the result of opportunistic infections. We report the case of a 59 years old woman who had hemichorea-hemiballismus subsequently found to be secondary to a cerebral toxoplasmos...

Acute infections by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii during pregnancy (gestational toxoplasmosis) are known to cause serious health problems to the fetus (congenital toxoplasmosis). In Brasília, there have been few studies on the incidence of toxoplasmosis. This report summarizes a retrospective study performed on 2,636 selected pregnant women attended by the public health system of Guará, a sat...

Toxoplasmosis is a rare but often fatal complication that occurs after patients undergo allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant. At our institution, toxoplasmosis was diagnosed in 8 of 301 patients who received stem cell transplants. Disseminated toxoplasmosis with a rapid fatal course was observed in 2 patients. Six patients had cerebral toxoplasmosis diagnosed on the basis of neurologic...

This paper reports a case of previously healthy patient who presented with generalised tonic-clonic seizure due to cerebral edema. Investigations revealed he had human Deficiency Virus (HIV) toxoplasmosis and was co-infected Hepatitis C. He immediately placed on treatment regime which, 4 weeks later, showed improvement in his clinical condition computed tomography (CT) brain imaging. then put a...

The protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii causes severe opportunistic infections. Here, we report an unexpected diagnosis of cerebral toxoplasmosis. T. gondii was diagnosed by 16S and D2 large-subunit (LSU) ribosomal DNA (rDNA) sequencing of a cerebral biopsy specimen and confirmed by T. gondii-specific PCR and immunohistochemistry. The patient was later diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

1 Universidad del Valle. Hospital Universitario del Valle. Department of Internal Medicine. Cali, Colombia. 2 Universidad del Valle and Universidad Libre. Hospital Universitario del Valle, Department of Internal Medicine. Cali, Colombia. 3 Universidad Libre, Department of Internal Medicine. Cali, Colombia. 4 Universidad del Valle. Hospital Universitario del Valle, Department of Pathology. Cali,...

According to studies, latent Toxoplasma gondii infection may affect several functions of the human brain. Here we search for the association between latent toxoplasmosis and cognitive performance. We tested 70 individuals for latent T. gondii infection. There were 26 Toxoplasma-infected subjects and 44 Toxoplasma-free subjects. Within these two groups we assessed cognitive performance using a s...