title: Miliary toxoplasmic retinitis in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
abstract: A unique pattern of bilateral miliary retinitis due to ocular toxoplasmosis developed in a patient in the late stages of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Results of serologic tests for toxoplasmosis remained negative throughout the clinical course of his ocular disease. The retinitis was unresponsive to a brief course of anti-toxoplasmosis therapy. At autopsy, the histopathologic material was consistent with toxoplasmic retinitis and the DNA polymerase chain reaction was positive for toxoplasmosis. Recognition of this pattern of retinitis is important in the appropriate treatment of immunosuppressed patients with retinitis.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio.
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Berger
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Egwuagu
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Freeman
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Wiley
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000032:analysis; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012173:Retinitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000235:genetics; D014126:Toxoplasmosis, Ocular / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D016054:DNA, Protozoan; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes