Cerebral toxoplasmosis in HIV-positive patients in Brazil: Clinical features and predictors of treatment response in the HAART era

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome 13%
• Brain 2%
• Brazil 54%
• CD4 Lymphocyte Count 5%
• Cerebral Toxoplasmosis 92%
• Confusion 6%
• Consciousness 5%
• Glasgow Coma Scale 6%
• Hemoglobins 4%
• Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy 67%
• HIV 41%
• HIV Infections 4%
• Morbidity 3%
• Mortality 2%
• Neurologic Manifestations 5%
• Prospective Studies 3%
• Recurrence 6%
• Survival 3%
• Therapeutics 9%
• Tomography 3%
• Toxoplasma 6%
• Toxoplasmosis 12%

Social Sciences

• active therapy 100%
• AIDS 37%
• brain 12%
• Brazil 44%
• cause 8%
• consciousness 13%
• morbidity 15%
• mortality 12%
• prophylaxis 39%
• relapse 35%

Business & Economics

• Brazil 48%
• Computed Tomography 9%
• Consciousness 5%
• Deterioration 5%
• Factors 1%
• HIV Infection 8%
• Morbidity 6%
• Mortality 5%
• Predictors 63%
• Prospective Study 8%
• Relapse 14%
• Therapy 47%