Toxoplasmosis in a patient who was immunocompetent: a case report.
BACKGROUND
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan that infects up to one-third of the world's population. Although this case is not the first of its kind, it is clinically important since it will help doctors keep a broad differential diagnosis in mind when attending to similar patients.


METHODS
We present the case of a 20-year-old man of Middle Eastern heritage presenting with only generalized lymphadenopathy who was diagnosed with acute toxoplasmosis.


CONCLUSIONS
This case illustrates the important fact that toxoplasmosis can present with just simple lymphadenopathy, and thus can be confused with other infections such as Epstein-Barr virus and other mononucleosis-like illnesses such as cytomegalovirus, HIV with acute retroviral syndrome, cat scratch disease, leishmaniasis and syphilis. This case underlines why appropriate testing should be performed in confusing cases, and helps increase the knowledge about the diagnosis of this disease.
Division of Infectious Diseases, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA. ljohns14@hfhs.org.
Aneta K
AK
Taila
Ameet S
AS
Hingwe
Laura E
LE
Johnson
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