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Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral

"Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Infections of the BRAIN caused by the protozoan TOXOPLASMA gondii that primarily arise in individuals with IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES (see also AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS). The infection may involve the brain diffusely or form discrete abscesses. Clinical manifestations include SEIZURES, altered mentation, headache, focal neurologic deficits, and INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1998, Ch27, pp41-3)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1994 and 1995 and 1997 and 1999 and 2000 and 2004 and 2006 and 2009 and 2012 and 2016 and 2017 and 2020
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.