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Toxoplasmosis of the spinal cord in an immunocompromised patient: case report and review of the literature.

Carolina Rodríguez1, Ernesto Martínez2, Guillermo Bolívar3, Sandra Sánchez4, Edwin Carrascal1.   

Abstract

We, herein, describe an HIV-positive patient with toxoplasmosis of the spinal cord. We also carried out a comprehensive literature review of this topic, with emphasis on the diagnostic tools and therapeutic approach.

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Keywords:  Spinal cord toxoplasmosis; central nervous system; myelopathy in immunocompromised patient

Year:  2013        PMID： 24892240      PMCID： PMC4001992     

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Colomb Med (Cali)        ISSN： 0120-8322


  7 in total

Review 1.  Spinal cord toxoplasmosis in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus infection.

Authors:  C K Fairley; J Wodak; E Benson
Journal:  Int J STD AIDS       Date:  1992 Sep-Oct       Impact factor: 1.359

Review 2.  Toxoplasmosis of the spinal cord in a patient with AIDS: case report and review.

Authors:  R Vyas; J R Ebright
Journal:  Clin Infect Dis       Date:  1996-11       Impact factor: 9.079

3.  Toxoplasmosis myelopathy and myopathy in an AIDS patient: a case of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome?

Authors:  Doris Hichi Kung; Erica A Hubenthal; Justin Y Kwan; Samuel A Shelburne; Jerry C Goodman; Joseph S Kass
Journal:  Neurologist       Date:  2011-01       Impact factor: 1.398

Review 4.  Neurologic presentations of AIDS.

Authors:  Elyse J Singer; Miguel Valdes-Sueiras; Deborah Commins; Andrew Levine
Journal:  Neurol Clin       Date:  2010-02       Impact factor: 3.806

5.  Guidelines for prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections in HIV-infected adults and adolescents: recommendations from CDC, the National Institutes of Health, and the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Authors:  Jonathan E Kaplan; Constance Benson; King K Holmes; John T Brooks; Alice Pau; Henry Masur
Journal:  MMWR Recomm Rep       Date:  2009-04-10

6.  Subacute onset of paralysis in a person with AIDS.

Authors:  Saarah Arshad; Daniel Skiest; Eric V Granowitz
Journal:  AIDS Read       Date:  2009-01

7.  Spinal cord toxoplasmosis as an unusual presentation of AIDS: case report and review of the literature.

Authors:  Carlos Garcia-Gubern; Carmen R Fuentes; Lissandra Colon-Rolon; Daniel Masvidal
Journal:  Int J Emerg Med       Date:  2010-09-07
  7 in total
  2 in total

1.  Spinal cord toxoplasmosis in a young immunocompetent patient.

Authors:  M Martinot; V Greigert; C Farnarier; M L Dardé; C Piperoglou; M Mohseni-Zadeh; J Tarabeux; A Guffroy; O Villard; F Vely
Journal:  Infection       Date:  2019-12-09       Impact factor: 3.553

Review 2.  An overview of seventy years of research (1944-2014) on toxoplasmosis in Colombia, South America.

Authors:  William Alberto Cañón-Franco; Natalia López-Orozco; Jorge Enrique Gómez-Marín; Jitender P Dubey
Journal:  Parasit Vectors       Date:  2014-09-04       Impact factor: 3.876
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