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Toxoplasmosis after renal transplantation: implications of a missed diagnosis.

Wulf MW, van Crevel R, Portier R, Ter Meulen CG, Melchers WJ, van der Ven A, Galama JM

Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. m.wulf@mmb.umcn.nl

We describe a renal transplant patient with a primary Toxoplasma gondii infection presenting as pneumonitis, with subsequent chorioretinitis and encephalitis. The diagnostic challenges of T. gondii infection in immunocompromised patients are discussed.

Published 7 July 2005 in J Clin Microbiol, 43(7): 3544-7.
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