| Literature DB >> 30184374 |
Armando Daniel Cortés1, Natalia Aguirre.
Abstract
We present the case of a 72-year-old immunocompetent patient from Chocó, Colombia, with a 12-day course of fever, headache, progressive neurological deterioration, and rapid evolution to multiorgan failure and death. In the histopathological study of tissues obtained at necropsy, tissue cysts morphologically suggestive of being bradyzoites of Toxoplasma gondii were identified and confirmed by immunohistochemistry in heart, brain, and striated muscle.Entities:
Keywords: Colombia; Toxoplasma; toxoplasmosis; myocarditis
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Year: 2018 PMID: 30184374 DOI: 10.7705/biomedica.v38i0.4087
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biomedica ISSN: 0120-4157 Impact factor: 0.935