Dawis Maria Agnes, Bottone Edward J, Vlachos Adrianna, Burroughs Margaret H
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, 10029, USA.
Clin Infect Dis. 2002 May 1;34(9):e37-9. doi: 10.1086/339960. Epub 2002 Apr 3.
Toxoplasma gondii is an opportunistic parasite that can cause severe disease in immunosuppressed individuals. We report a case of unsuspected T. gondii empyema in a bone marrow transplant recipient that was diagnosed by the visualization of numerous intracellular and extracellular tachyzoites in Giemsa- and Gram-stained smears. The patient was treated with pyrimethamine, sulfadiazine, clindamycin, and atovaquone, and she survived 110 days after diagnosis, despite having a large parasite burden.
