Lymphadenopathy in Toxoplasmosis

Lymphadenopathy in toxoplasmosis.

The clinical signs of congenital toxoplasmosis are now well known, but those of post-natally acquired infections have received less attention. Sabin (1941) recorded two cases which presented as meningoencephalitis, and Pinkerton and Henderson (1941) described two cases which resembled typhus. In 1951 Siim reported seven cases which had generalized lymph node enlargement not unlike glandular fev...

Lymphadenopathy due to toxoplasmosis.

MANY SEROLOGICAL surveys using the dye test of Sabin and Feldman (1948) have shown infection with Toxoplasma gondii to be widespread. It occurs with various degrees of frequency in different geographic areas and antibodies have been found in man and many species of animals (Feldman and Miller, 1956; Beattie, 1957; Jacobs, Remington and Melton, 1960; Ludlam and Beattie, 1963). As an infection pr...

Immunoglobulin G avidity in diagnosis of toxoplasmic lymphadenopathy and ocular toxoplasmosis.

Traditional serological techniques have some limitations in evaluating the duration of Toxoplasma gondii infection in pregnant women, patients with lymphadenopathy, and older children suspected of having congenital toxoplasmosis. In these three groups of patients, two variants of T. gondii immunoglobulin G (IgG) avidity tests were used: an EIA Kit (Labsystems) and a noncommercial enzyme-linked ...

Toxoplasmosis in Pregnancy

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Lymphadenopathy.