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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 2007, p. 3138-3140, Vol. 45, No. 9
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00021-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Severe Toxoplasma gondii I/III Recombinant-Genotype Encephalitis in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Patient{triangledown}

Séverine Genot,1 Jacqueline Franck,2,3 Jean-Marie Forel,4 Stanislas Rebaudet,1 Daniel Ajzenberg,3,5 Andre Maues de Paula,6 Marie-Laure Dardé,3,5 Andreas Stein,1 and Stéphane Ranque2*

Service des Maladies Infectieuses, Hôpital de la Conception,1 Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie,2 Laboratoire d’Anatomopathologie,6 Hôpital Timone, and Département d’Anesthésie-Réanimation, Hôpital Sainte Marguerite,4 Marseille, and Faculté de Médecine, EA3174,5 Centre National Référence de la Toxoplasmose, Limoges, France3

Received 4 January 2007/ Returned for modification 12 March 2007/ Accepted 2 July 2007

The reactivation of an uncommon type I/III recombinant-genotype Toxoplasma gondii strain resulted in unusually severe encephalitis and chorioretinitis associated with a cerebral salt wasting syndrome in an African human immunodeficiency virus patient. This observation suggests an influence of the parasite genotype on disease expression in immunocompromised patients.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, AP-HM Timone, F-13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France. Phone: 33 491.38.60.90. Fax: 33 491.38.49.58. E-mail: stephane.ranque{at}ap-hm.fr

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 18 July 2007.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 2007, p. 3138-3140, Vol. 45, No. 9
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00021-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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