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Record W4379347703 · doi:10.1017/cjn.2023.227

P.139 Cerebral toxoplasmosis in an HIV-negative patient

2023· article· en· W4379347703 on OpenAlexaffvenue
E Liu, Pramath Kakodkar, P Toyota, Nicole Pendleton, Amit Persad, V Zherebitskiy, Camille Hamula, RN Auer, Kritika Vats, Luke Hnenny, J Radic

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldImmunology and Microbiology
TopicToxoplasma gondii Research Studies
Canadian institutionsSaskatoon Medical Imaging
Fundersnot available
KeywordsToxoplasmosisMedicineBrain biopsyPyrimethamineToxoplasma gondiiImmunosuppressionTrimethoprimSulfadiazineOpportunistic infectionLumbar punctureAsymptomaticPediatricsSurgeryInternal medicinePathologyImmunologyBiopsyHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)AntibioticsCerebrospinal fluidViral diseaseAntibody

Abstract

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Background: Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite with the ability to infect any nucleated cell in humans. Most immunocompetent infected individuals are asymptomatic. Latent toxoplasma can become reactivated in immunocompromised individuals though this is exceptionally rare in HIV-negative individuals. Methods: We present the case of a 47-year-old male with chronic immunosuppression secondary to marginal zone lymphoma and steroid therapy. Results: The patient presented to hospital with a 1-week history of word-finding difficulties, intermittent right facial numbness and leg weakness, and tonic-clonic seizures. CT head showed a left temporal heterogenous mass measuring 2.8 × 2.8 × 3.5 cm. Biopsy of the lesion showed Multiple tachyzoites and rare bradyzoites with strong positivity for the toxoplasma specific immunostain. The patient was treated with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole which resulted in complete neurologic recovery. Conclusions: Our literature review included 32 cases of cerebral toxoplasmosis in HIV-negative patients with an overall mortality rate of 48%. Cerebral toxoplasmosis has a predilection for immunosuppressed patients with an underlying hematologic malignancy (74%, n= 23). Successful treatment requires early recognition of the disease and prompt treatment with sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim, pyrimethamine, or sulfadiazine. Patients who recover from acute toxoplasmosis should remain on lifelong suppressive antibiotic therapy to prevent relapse.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.173
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0030.009
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.284
Teacher spread0.243 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2023
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