An 8-year-old Argentinean boy with ALL in CR2 received a one-antigen mismatched HSCT from his brother. He developed grade II GVHD on day +36 and was treated with systemic steroids, and continuing ...

On day +161 after his second HCT the patient developed fever, a new-onset complex partial seizure (left arm numbness progressing to left facial twitching with confusion), and clinical signs of septic ...

The cerebral toxoplasmosis is a new disease which was first found in 1918, in a child from Czechoslovakia at the time of the influenza epidemic. Since 1937, the disease appeared again among children ...

In a patient who is diagnosed with HIV for the first time when presenting with PCP, TB, and cerebral toxoplasmosis, should one start HAART at the same time as treatment for these conditions, or delay ...

To the Editor: Post-marketing surveillance has revealed a higher incidence of reactivation of granulomatous infections — most notably, tuberculosis 1 and histoplasmosis 2 — in patients receiving the ...

Organotypic slice culture explants of rat cortical tissue infected with Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites were applied as an in vitro model to investigate host-pathogen interactions in cerebral ...

Background. Toxoplasmosis is an often fatal opportunistic infection following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and is largely due to deferred diagnosis. In addition, breakthrough ...