Severe acute multi-systemic failure with bilateral ocular toxoplasmosis in immunocompetent patients from urban settings in Colombia: Case reports

Propose: To report two cases of severe acute multi-systemic failure with bilateral ocular toxoplasmosis in immunocompetent patients from urban settings in Colombia. Observations: We report two immunocompetent male patients aged 44- and 67-years-old who, despite not having visited the Amazonian regio...

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2020

Institución:

Universidad del Rosario

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Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario

Idioma:

eng

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oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/24174

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2020.100661
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/24174

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Clindamycin
Cotrimoxazole
Dexamethasone
Valaciclovir
Vancomycin
Add on therapy
Adult
Aged
Allele
Anamnesis
Antiviral therapy
Article
Bacterial endophthalmitis
Bacterial infection
Best corrected visual acuity
Biomicroscopy
Case report
Chorioretinopathy
Clinical article
Colombia
Conjunctival hyperemia
Disease severity
Endophthalmitis
Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
Epstein barr virus infection
Eye examination
Follow up
Genotyping technique
Hospitalization
Human
Hypertension
Immunocompromised patient
Intensive care unit
Laboratory test
Male
Medical history
Molecular phylogeny
Multiple organ failure
Myocarditis
Myositis
Nephritis
Ocular toxoplasmosis
Optical coherence tomography
Pericarditis
Pneumonia
Polymerase chain reaction
Polymyositis
Polyneuropathy
Pyrexia idiopathica
Respiratory failure
Retina detachment
Serology
Serotyping
Systemic therapy
Thrombocytopenia
Toxoplasma gondii
Treatment duration
Treatment outcome
Urban area
Uveitis
Visual acuity
Vitreous body
Vitreous opacity
Vitritis
Atypical strains
Multiple organ failure
Ocular toxoplasmosis
Rop18
Toxoplasma gondii

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