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Acta médica portuguesa · Mar 1993
Review Case Reports[Cerebral toxoplasmosis in a kidney transplant patient. A clinical case and review of the literature].
- S da Cunha, E Ferreira, I Ramos, R Martins, L de Freitas, J L Borges, R Côrte-Real, A Mota, A Meliço-Silvestre, and A Linhares-Furtado.
- Clínica de Doenças Infecciosas, Serviço de Urologia e Transplantação, Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra.
- Acta Med Port. 1993 Mar 1; 6 (3-4): 157-63.
AbstractInfection caused by Toxoplasma gondii is a frequent event in Portugal. When this occurs in immunocompetent individuals it is rarely a matter of concern; the contrary occurs with immunosuppressed patients or in pregnancy. Transplant patients are treated with immunosuppressive drugs which mainly disturb their mechanisms of cellular immunity, and that opens the way to infections by opportunistic intracellular microorganisms. We recently treated a renal transplant patient who suffered from cerebral toxoplasmosis, and this provided an opportunity for a review of the other 20 patients reported in medical literature to date.
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