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SUBMITTER: Patrat-Delon S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2897503 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Patrat-Delon Solène S Gangneux Jean-Pierre JP Lavoué Sylvain S Lelong Bernard B Guiguen Claude C le Tulzo Yves Y Robert-Gangneux Florence F
Journal of clinical microbiology 20100512 7
Disseminated toxoplasmosis is a life-threatening infection in transplant recipients, which results either from reactivation of latent infection or from organ-transmitted primary infection. Preventive measures and diagnostic screening methods differ between countries and are related to the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma spp. in the general population. Here we report a case of disseminated toxoplasmosis in a heart transplant recipient with previous immunity that occurred after cotrimoxazole prophyla ...[more]