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Provedor de dados: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
País: | Brazil
Título: | Ventriculitis: a rare case of primary cerebral toxoplasmosis in AIDS patient and literature review
Autores: | Cota,Gláucia Fernandes; Assad,Elisa Caroline Pereira; Christo,Paulo Pereira; Giannetti,Alexandre Varella; Santos Filho,José Augusto Malheiros dos; Xavier,Marcelo Antonio Pascoal.
Data: | 2008-02-01
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Cerebral toxoplasmosis; Ventriculitis; Hydrocephalus; AIDS.
Resumo: | Cerebral toxoplasmosis remains the most important neurological opportunistic infection and the most common cause of intracerebral mass lesion in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). We report a case of an adult AIDS patient with an atypical pattern of toxoplasma encephalitis, presenting with ventriculitis and obstructive hydrocephalus without any focal parenchymal lesion.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/report
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702008000100022
Editor: | Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Relação: | 10.1590/S1413-86702008000100022
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.12 n.1 2008
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess