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What is the prognosis for immunocompromised patients with toxoplasmosis?
The disease can be fatal to all immunocompromised patients, especially AIDS patients, and particularly if not treated. As a result, immunocompromised patients are typically placed on anti-toxoplasmosis drugs for the rest of their lives.
The most common form of encephalitis in AIDS patients is associated with what protozoan?
Toxoplasma gondii is the most common protozoan associated with encephalitis in AIDS patients.
What are newborns with toxoplasmosis treated with?
Newborns with symptoms of toxoplasmosis are treated with pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine for one year.
How is maternal toxoplasmosis treated?
Maternal toxoplasmosis is treated with spiramycin during the first and early second trimesters of pregnancy.
What is a parasitic infection associated with AIDS?
toxoplasmosis
How is fetal toxoplasmosis treated?
Fetal toxoplasmosis may be treated by giving the mother pyrimethamine and sulfonamides such as sulfadiazine during the later second and third trimesters.
Is cytomegalovirus a parasitic infection associated with AIDS?
No, it's toxoplasmosis.
What are newborns with symptoms of toxoplasmosis treated with to protect their bone marrow?
Newborns with symptoms of toxoplasmosis are treated with leucovorin for one year to protect the bone marrow from pyrimethamine toxicity.
What are newborns with symptoms of toxoplasmosis given to reduce inflammation?
Newborns with symptoms of toxoplasmosis are treated with corticosteroids for heart, lung, or eye inflammations.
Is toxoplasmosis a protozoa?
No. AIDS is caused by a retrovirus named as HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus).
Does Bacillary Angiomatosis occur in AIDS patients?
It occurs almost exclusively in patients with AIDS
What type of patients treated by obstetrician?
Pregnant patients are treated by obstetricians.
