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Type-1 diabetes mellitus down-regulated local cerebral glial fibrillary acidic protein expression in experimental toxoplasmosis
Cerebral toxoplasmosis is an opportunistic infection, occurring mostly in immunosuppressed patients due to the reactivation of latent Toxoplasma ...
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Molecular diagnosis of human toxoplasmosis: the state of the art
Toxoplasma gondii ( T. gondii ) is an obligate intracellular apicomplexan protozoan that causes toxoplasmosis. Approximately one-third of the world’s...
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Prevalence of Human Toxoplasmosis in Spain Throughout the Three Last Decades (1993–2023): A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Humans are infected by Toxoplasma gondii worldwide and its consequences may seriously affect an immune deprived population such as HIV and...
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Detection and treatment of cerebral toxoplasmosis in an aplastic pediatric post-allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant patient: a case report
BackgroundCerebral toxoplasmosis infection presents with non-specific neurologic symptoms in immunocompromised patients. With lack of measurable...
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Seroepidemiological study on coinfection of toxoplasmosis and active tuberculosis in Northern Iran: a case control study
Coinfection of tuberculosis (TB) and human parasitic infections is common in develo** countries. There is little information about the prevalence...
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Spinal Cord Involvement and Brain Hemorrhage as an Atypical Presentation of Toxoplasmosis in a Patient with HIV
Central nervous system (CNS) toxoplasmosis is a well-known opportunistic infection in patients with AIDS. Spinal cord involvement and brain...
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CNS Infections in Patients Living with HIV/AIDS
Purpose of ReviewThe purpose of this review is to provide an overview of central nervous system (CNS) infections in patients living with HIV (PLWH)...
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Historical and current issues in HIV encephalitis, and the role of neuropathology in HIV disease: a pathological perspective
In the 1980s, after the HIV pandemic was recognised, neuropathology identified cerebral white matter lesions that were found in the brains of...
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Encephalitis in HIV-infected adults in the antiretroviral therapy era
IntroductionEncephalitis presents with high morbidity and mortality in both HIV-infected and HIV-negative patients. There are currently no studies...
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Building Programs to Eradicate Toxoplasmosis Part I: Introduction and Overview
Purpose of ReviewReview building of programs to eliminate Toxoplasma infections.
Recent FindingsMorbidity and mortality from toxoplasmosis led to...
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Diabetes in a hospital cohort of persons living with HIV: a descriptive and comparative study in French Guiana
BackgroundIn French Guiana (population 294,000) the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (10%) and of HIV(1.1%) are very high. Our objective was to...
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Clinical presentation, management, and outcome of suspected central nervous system infections in Indonesia: a prospective cohort study
BackgroundLittle is known about the etiology, clinical presentation, management, and outcome of central nervous system (CNS) infections in Indonesia,...
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Disseminated mycobacterium genavense infection with central nervous system involvement in an HIV patient: a case report and literature review
BackgroundImmunodeficient patients, particularly HIV patients, are at risk of opportunistic infections. Nontuberculous mycobacteria can cause severe...
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Seizure in HIV-infected patients: clinical presentation, cause and treatment outcome in Ethiopia—a retrospective study
BackgroundThe estimated number of adult patients living with HIV infection in Ethiopia in 2012 was approximately 800,000. Seizure occurs in 2 to 3%...
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Evaluation of a PCR assay for diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in serum and peripheral blood mononuclear cell among HIV/AIDS patients
Cerebral toxoplasmosis is one of the neurological infections with high morbidity and mortality in patients with AIDS, so the accurate method for...
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New-onset focal seizure as a presenting feature of HIV infection: a case report and mini review to the challenge in resource-limited settings
BackgroundThe frequency of new-onset HIV-associated seizure in the HIV-infected patient is estimated to be between 2 and 11%. Identifying the...
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Cerebral sparganosis: rare parasitic infection of the brain
Spirometra is larval cestode that involve humans as accidental intermediate hosts. Although the incidence of central nervous system infestation with...
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Toxoplasma gondii infections in pediatric neurosurgery
Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that is estimated to infect one-third of the world’s population. It is acquired by ingesting contaminated water and...
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MRI imaging features of HIV-related central nervous system diseases: diagnosis by pattern recognition in daily practice
With the advent of antiretroviral therapy (ART), the prognosis of people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has improved, and the...
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Predictors of antiretroviral treatment failure to the first line therapy: a cross-sectional study among Iranian HIV-positive adults
BackgroundHIV virological failure is one of the main problems in HIV-infected patients, and identifying the main predictors of such treatment failure...