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Disease meningitis
Symptom C0040558|toxoplasmosis
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PubMedID- 20378610 Apicomplexan protozoa are a phylum of parasites that includes pathogens such as plasmodium, the causative agent of the most severe form of malaria responsible for almost 1 million deaths per year and toxoplasma gondii causing toxoplasmosis, a disease leading to cerebral meningitis in immunocompromised individuals or to abortion in farm animals or in women that are infected for the first time during pregnancy.
PubMedID- 21062937 We report an unusual severe case of disseminated toxoplasmosis complicated with meningitis and pneumonia in a previously 41-year-old healthy brazilian man.

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