HIV-related cerebral toxoplasmosis revisited: current concepts and controversies of an old disease

JE Vidal - Journal of the International Association of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Cerebral toxoplasmosis is the most common cause of expansive brain lesions in people
living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and continues to cause high morbidity and mortality. The most …

An overview of seventy years of research (1944–2014) on toxoplasmosis in Colombia, South America

WA Cañón-Franco, N López-Orozco… - Parasites & vectors, 2014 - Springer
This paper summarizes prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in humans and animals and
associated correlates of infection, clinical spectrum of disease in humans, and genetic …

Molecular diagnosis of toxoplasmosis: recent advances and a look to the future

MG Robert, MP Brenier-Pinchart… - Expert Review of Anti …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Toxoplasmosis is a globally distributed parasitic infection that can be
particularly severe when opportunistic or congenital. Its diagnosis requires accurate and …

Investigation of false positives associated with loop-mediated isothermal amplification assays for detection of Toxoplasma gondii in archived tissue samples of captive …

E Suleman, MS Mtshali, E Lane - Journal of Veterinary …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Toxoplasma gondii is a ubiquitous protozoan parasite that infects humans and many
different animals, including felids. Many molecular and serologic tests have been developed …

Performance testing of PCR assay in blood samples for the diagnosis of toxoplasmic encephalitis in AIDS patients from the French Departments of America and …

D Ajzenberg, I Lamaury, M Demar… - PLoS Neglected …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Toxoplasmic encephalitis in patients with AIDS is a life-threatening disease
mostly due to reactivation of Toxoplasma gondii cysts in the brain. The main objective of this …

Influence of Two Major Toxoplasma Gondii Virulence Factors (ROP16 and ROP18) on the Immune Response of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells to Human …

A Hernández-de-Los-Ríos, M Murillo-Leon… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Toxoplasma gondii ROP16 and ROP18 proteins have been identified as important virulence
factors for this parasite. Here, we describe the effect of ROP16 and ROP18 proteins on …

[HTML][HTML] Seroprevalencia y detección molecular de Toxoplasma gondii en donantes de un banco de sangre de Cúcuta, Colombia

AM Ramírez, YK Ríos, NF Galvis, E Entrena, NV Mariño… - Biomédica, 2019 - scielo.org.co
Introducción. La infección por Toxoplasma gondii puede presentarse en los humanos con
un amplio rango de manifestaciones que van desde el estado asintomático hasta la …

Serotyping, host genes and cytokines response in human ocular toxoplasmosis

LE Mantilla-Muriel, A Hernández-De-Los-Ríos… - Microbial …, 2020 - Elsevier
In human ocular toxoplasmosis, serotype is related with greater severity. We analyzed
Toxoplasma GRA6 serotype in 23 patients with ocular toxoplasmosis (13 confirmed, two co …

Striking Divergence in Toxoplasma ROP16 Nucleotide Sequences From Human and Meat Samples

C Alvarez, A De-La-Torre, M Vargas… - The Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background. ROP16 is a protein kinase of Toxoplasma gondii identified in the mouse model
as a virulent marker, but it is unknown whether this finding is relevant in human …

Coinfections and differential diagnosis in immunocompetent patients with uveitis of infectious origin

A De-La-Torre, J Valdés-Camacho, CL De Mesa… - BMC Infectious …, 2019 - Springer
Background Making a definite diagnosis of infectious uveitis is a challenging task because
many other infectious, and non-infectious uveitis, may have similar non-specific symptoms …