Ocular toxoplasmosis
Antibiotic treatment for ocular toxoplasmosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis: study protocol
... Ocular toxoplasmosis (OT) is the most common cause of posterior uveitis, and is the result of an acquired or congeni- tal infection by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii ...
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Genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii Strains Isolated from Patients with Ocular Toxoplasmosis in Iran
... Ocular toxoplasmosis is one of the main causes of posterior uveitis around the ...of ocular lesions depend on various factors, such as geographic location, host’s immune status, time of infection, ...
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Direct Genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii in Ocular Fluid Samples from 20 Patients with Ocular Toxoplasmosis: Predominance of Type II in France
... on ocular toxoplasmosis has been studied mainly in patients from Brazil (23, 31), the United States (17), and Poland ...in ocular disease, regardless of the geographical location of ...congenital ...
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Biological Diagnosis of Ocular Toxoplasmosis: a Nine-Year Retrospective Observational Study
... ABSTRACT Ocular toxoplasmosis (OT), i.e., the ocular manifestation of Toxoplasma gondii infection, is one of the leading causes of posterior ...While ocular lesions are often typical, atypical ...
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Anaphylactic reaction to intravenous corticosteroids in the treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis: a case report
... administration of cortisone, for example, in the treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis, should always be conducted with caution because of a possible allergic reaction. For patients who react to a particular ...
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Comparison of Azithromycin and Pyrimethamine/Sulfadiazine Treatment in Ocular Toxoplasmosis in North West of Iran
... An obligate intracellular protozoan, Toxoplasma gondii is a leading cause of preventable visual loss by ocular toxoplasmosis particularly in young people (1). It infects almost 33% of the world’s population ...
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Immunoglobulin G Avidity in Diagnosis of Toxoplasmic Lymphadenopathy and Ocular Toxoplasmosis
... acquired toxoplasmosis and had various stages of ...with ocular toxoplasmosis were either children or adolescents with active, fresh foci of the retinochoroiditis type alone (n ⫽ 4) or foci that were ...
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Aqueous Humor and Serum Immunoblotting for Immunoglobulin Types G, A, M, and E in Cases of Human Ocular Toxoplasmosis
... for ocular toxoplasmosis, a late-onset humoral immune response has been detected 2 to 6 weeks later ...of ocular toxoplasmosis by yielding evidence of local specific antibody ...
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Early Aqueous Humor Analysis in Patients with Human Ocular Toxoplasmosis
... systemic toxoplasmosis (59), correspond well to these experi- mental findings and lend credence to the inclusion of this test among those used for diagnostic ...with ocular toxoplasmosis are not ...
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Morphological characteristics of ocular toxoplasmosis and its regression pattern on swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography: a case report
... phase of the disease. Other inflammatory conditions associated with choroidal thickening include Bechet’s disease [17], Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease [18], or sympathetic ophthalmia [19]. A histopath- ology study of ...
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Use of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Hybridization Probes To Evaluate Quantitative Real Time PCR for Diagnosis of Ocular Toxoplasmosis
... of ocular toxoplasmosis is usually based on the presence of typical lesions associated with local production of ...congenital toxoplasmosis and diagnosis of acute toxoplasmic disease in the ...
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Role of oral azithromycin in the treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis.
... Toxoplasmosis is the most common cause of posterior uveitis in the immunocompetent individuals. It is estimated that at least 500 million people worldwide are infected with this organism. In the developing world ...
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Genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii in Cerebral and Ocular Toxoplasmosis
... Various studies reported that type I was the most pathogenic strain in immunocompromised patients. A study in Brazil showed 46% patients were found to be infected by type I strain [6]. Similar results were also reported ...
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MRI of ocular toxoplasmosis
... patients, ocular toxo- plasmosis is a much less common opportunistic infection than cytomegalovirus (CMV) ...however, toxoplasmosis can cause a progressive intraocular infection, pan- ophthalmitis, and ...
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PCR Based Detection of Toxoplasma gondii DNA in Blood and Ocular Samples for Diagnosis of Ocular Toxoplasmosis
... recent/chronic toxoplasmosis are excluded) (P ⫽ ...with ocular samples furnishes results different from those with PCR performed with whole peripheral ...and ocular fluid were both tested, blood PCR ...
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Serological and molecular approaches in clinical diagnosis of ocular toxoplasmosis in Iran
... sed in current ELISA and nest aches, along and precise dia e called toxopl rasite. th other ocular bent assay (ELI CR. The ocular ry testing. The PV and NPV). and IgM+. In nfirmed the res served between e ...
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PCR-based Diagnosis of Toxoplasma Parasite in Ocular Infections Having Clinical Indications of Toxoplasmosis
... Fifty ocular fluid samples (aqueous humor or vitreous humor) were obtained from patients with clinical fea- tures of ocular toxoplasmosis admitted to ophthalmology hospitals and clinics in Tehran, ...
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White Dot Syndrome in Patients with Prior Ocular Toxoplasmosis
... of ocular toxoplasmosis ...outer toxoplasmosis (PORT) was considered, since multifocal gray- white lesions at the level of the deep retina and retinal pigment epithelium have been described with this ...
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Branch retinal artery occlusion associated with posterior uveitis
... active ocular toxoplasmosis in 7 patients (7.5% of all toxoplasmosis cases recorded in our department) (Figure 1), rickettsio- sis (Mediterranean spotted fever) in 4 patients ...patient, ...
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Evaluation of spectral domain and time domain optical coherence tomography findings in toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis
... with ocular toxoplasmosis and found that SD-OCT demonstrated a significantly better image acquisition of the macular changes, such as small serous retinal detachment, epiretinal membrane, intraretinal ...
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