Disseminated toxoplasmosis in a severely immunodeficient patient: demonstration of cysts in bone marrow smears.
A 30-year-old woman was treated with unrelated HLA-compatible bone marrow transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia. Examination of her bone marrow smears because of fever and pancytopenia revealed the presence of Toxoplasma cysts. Although Toxoplasma cysts are rarely found in the bone marrow, bone marrow examination in the immunocompromised patient offers rapid diagnosis of systemic toxoplasmosis.
Soulier-Lauper
M
M
Division of Hematology, Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland.
Zulian
G
G
Pizzolato
G
G
Cox
J
J
Helg
C
C
Beris
P
P
D000328:Adult; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015479:Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute / Q000469:parasitology / Q000601:surgery; D009894:Opportunistic Infections / Q000473:pathology*; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology*