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Biomédica
Print version ISSN 0120-4157
Abstract
CORTES, Armando Daniel and AGUIRRE, Natalia. Severe disseminated acute toxoplasmosis in an adult immunocompetent patient from the Colombian Pacific. Biomédica [online]. 2018, vol.38, suppl.2, pp.19-23. ISSN 0120-4157. https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v38i0.4087.
We present the case of a 72-year-old immunocompetent patient from Chocó, Colombia, with a 12-day course of fever, headache, progressive neurological deterioration, and rapid evolution to multiorgan failure and death.
In the histopathological study of tissues obtained at necropsy, tissue cysts morphologically suggestive of being bradyzoites of Toxoplasma gondii were identified and confirmed by immunohistochemistry in heart, brain, and striated muscle.
Keywords : Toxoplasma; toxoplasmosis; myocarditis; Colombia.