Disseminated toxoplasmosis presenting as sepsis in two AIDS patients.
This report describes two patients who presented acute disseminated and severe toxoplasmosis as the first opportunistic disease related to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. At admission, clinical and laboratory findings were similar to sepsis or septic shock and a fast evolutive course to death occurred in both cases. At necropsy, an inflammatory reaction and presence of a great number of Toxoplasma gondii cysts and tachyzoites were observed in most organs examined.
Barbosa
Carlos José Dornas Gonçalves
CJ
Disciplina de Doenças Infecciosas e Parasitárias, Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil.
Molina
Rodrigo Juliano
RJ
de Souza
Murilo Barcelos
MB
Silva
Ana Cristina A
AC
Micheletti
Adilha Rua
AR
dos Reis
Marlene Antonia
MA
de Paula Antunes Teixeira
Vicente
V
Silva-Vergara
Mario León
ML
D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018805:Sepsis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology