Toxoplasmosis in Emergency Medicine Differential Diagnoses
- Author: Joseph U Becker, MD; Chief Editor: Rick Kulkarni, MD more...
Differential Diagnoses
- Acute HIV infection
- Brain Abscess
- CMV retinitis
- CNS lymphoma
- CNS tuberculosis
- Cytomegalovirus encephalitis
- Cytomegalovirus ventriculitis
- Disseminated tuberculosis
- Epstein-Barr virus (mononucleosis)
- Leukemia
- Lymphoma
- Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
- Sarcoidosis
- Syphilis
- Tularemia
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