Adverse event profile of pyrimethamine-based therapy in toxoplasmosis: a systematic review

RR Ben-Harari, E Goodwin, J Casoy - Drugs in R&D, 2017 - Springer
Introduction Approximately a third of the population worldwide is chronically infected with
Toxoplasma gondii. Pyrimethamine-based regimens are recommended for the treatment of …

Toxoplasmosis and the Heart

Z Zhou, HIAO Lopez, GE Pérez, LM Burgos… - Current Problems in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Toxoplasmosis is a common disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite with high
prevalence in tropical regions. Most infections show minimal symptoms, but …

Discovery of Selective Toxoplasma gondii Dihydrofolate Reductase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Toxoplasmosis

AT Hopper, A Brockman, A Wise, J Gould… - Journal of medicinal …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A safer treatment for toxoplasmosis would be achieved by improving the selectivity and
potency of dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) inhibitors, such as pyrimethamine (1), for …

Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases from Western Romania: A Case–Control Study

A Dragomir, MA Lupu, R Lighezan, AA Paduraru… - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Toxoplasma gondii infects approximately one third of the world's human
population. The seroepidemiology of T. gondii in cardiovascular patients is poorly discussed …

Toxoplasma: immunity and pathogenesis

IA Khan, C Ouellette, K Chen, M Moretto - Current clinical microbiology …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Toxoplasmosis is an apicomplexan parasite that can be found
in all countries, which causes an infection of the central nervous system. This review outlines …

Downregulated IL-21 response and T follicular helper cell exhaustion correlate with compromised CD8 T cell immunity during chronic toxoplasmosis

MM Moretto, SJ Hwang, IA Khan - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
CD8 T cells are important for maintaining the chronicity of Toxoplasma gondii infection. In a
T. gondii encephalitis susceptible model, we recently demonstrated that CD4 T cells play an …

Rosuvastatin reduced brain parasite burden in a chronic toxoplasmosis in vivo model and influenced the neuropathological pattern of ME-49 strain

L Nishi, PL Santana, FF Evangelista, LF Beletini… - Parasitology, 2020 - cambridge.org
This study evaluated the effects of rosuvastatin in vivo on toxoplasmosis chronic infection.
Thirty-five Swiss mice were orally infected (ME-49 strain). After 50 days, the mice were …

Immunization with Toxoplasma gondii aspartic protease 3 increases survival time of infected mice

G Zhao, X Song, X Kong, N Zhang, S Qu, W Zhu… - Acta Tropica, 2017 - Elsevier
Aspartic proteases in the Toxoplasma gondii, called TgASP1, 2, 3, and 5, play essential
roles in the life cycle. In a previous study, we have demonstrated that TgASP1 is an antigen …

Effective factors in the pathogenesis of Toxoplasma gondii

T Nayeri, S Sarvi, A Daryani - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a cosmopolitan protozoan parasite in humans and animals.
It infects about 30% of the human population worldwide and causes potentially fatal …

[HTML][HTML] Rare cardiac complication of toxoplasmosis in immunocompetent host

EJ Nelwan, S Shakinah, G Clarissa, FN Hosea… - IDCases, 2022 - Elsevier
Myocarditis is a rare complication of toxoplasmosis, especially in immunocompetent
individuals. We present a case of a 28-year-old man with a history of fever and chest pain …