Toxoplasma pneumonitis: fatal presentation of disseminated toxoplasmosis in a patient with AIDS
- 1 September 1992
- journal article
- case report
- Published by European Respiratory Society (ERS) in European Respiratory Journal
- Vol. 5 (8) , 1018-1020
- https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.93.05081018
Abstract
Toxoplasma gondii infection is an uncommon cause of pneumonitis in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). We report a case of fatal pulmonary toxoplasmosis, which clinically resembled Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). Conventional diagnostic methods for toxoplasmosis lack sensitivity. Bronchoscopy and histological evaluation of transbronchial biopsy specimens failed to identify the infecting organism. At autopsy there was evidence of disseminated infection.Keywords
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