Treating toxoplasmosis
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Treating ocular toxoplasmosis: current evidence.
The current treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis is controversial. The mainstay of treatment has been pyrimethamine and sulphonamides with or without systemic corticosteroids, but the actual evidence that antibiotics have a beneficial effect in recurrent toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis is unsupported by randomised placebo controlled trials. Thus far there have only been three studies looking at the ...
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A large amount of research has been done on toxoplasmosis in the last 30 years, and the world-wide incidence of the infection, and its clinical manifestations, are recognized and documented in an extensive literature. New discoveries concerning the life-cycle of the organism (Frenkel, I970; Hutchison, Dunachie, Siim, and Work, I970) promise to solve many of the problems of the transmission of i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0305-7453,1460-2091
DOI: 10.1093/jac/5.3.244