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3-D Imaging and Analysis of Neurons Infected In Vivo with Toxoplasma gondii
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Disseminated toxoplasmosis with brain involvement in a renal allograft recipient
Bulletin of the Los Angeles Neurological Societies
|March 1, 1977
Abstract:
A 47-year-old male with renal failure received a renal transplant which subsequently was rejected. After removal of the transplant the patient went into a catabolic state, and developed fever and hematochezia. The patient became septic, developed respiratory involvement. This is the eighth recorded case of central nervous system toxoplasmosis following renal transplantation.
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