Hemophagocytic syndrome as uncommon presentation of disseminated toxoplasmosis in an immunocompetent adult from Chinese Kunming.

Hemophagocytic syndrome is a rare disease that is often fatal, despite treatment. An immunocompetent patient was presented with fever, hepatosplenomegaly, cytopenias, hypertriglyceridemia, hypofibrinogenemia, and hyperferritinemia, which conformed to a hemophagocytic syndrome diagnosis. Despite broad antibiotic treatment, the patient's clinical condition rapidly deteriorated and he died within 8 days of admission.

Identification of Sarcocystis cymruensis in wild Rattus flavipectus and Rattus norvegicus from Peoples Republic of China and its transmission to rats and cats.

Sarcocystis cymruensis was initially identified in skeletal muscles of 22 (11.6%) of 189 wild rats (Rattus spp.) captured in 2008 in Anning and Kunming, Peoples Republic of China.

[Research progress on human sarcocystosis].

Human sarcocystosis (both the intestinal and muscular forms) may be emerging as a significant, foodborne zoonotic infection in southeast Asia and southwest of China. This review summarizes recent findings in classification of Sarcocystis spp, epidemiologic features, clinical symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention in human infections.

[A comparative study on isoenzymes of Sarcocystis spp. from cattle and water buffaloes].

Objective: To analyze the zymogram of peroxidase (PER) and phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) of three species of Sarcocystis.

Methods: The collected parasites were homogenized and fragmented by ultrasonication. After centrifugation, the supernatants were analyzed by isoelectric focusing electrophoresis.

A taxonomic re-appraisal of Sarcocystis nesbitti (Protozoa: Sarcocystidae) from the monkey Macaca fascicularis in Yunnan, PR China.

The first detection of Sarcocystis nesbitti Mandour, 1969 in the Chinese mainland is reported and the morphology of the sarcocyst is described in detail. The parasite was detected in the monkey, Macaca fascicularis, maintained on a monkey farm in Yunnan Province; the infection may have occurred via faecal contamination from local rats, mice and/or birds. S.

A PCR-based RFLP analysis of Sarcocystis cruzi (Protozoa: Sarcocystidae) in Yunnan Province, PR China, reveals the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) as a natural intermediate host.

A polymerase chain reaction-based restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) approach is used to examine Sarcocystis cruzi-like taxa from the atypical intermediate host, water buffalo, in Yunnan, People's Republic of China. The loci examined lie within the 18S rRNA gene. A total of 15 water buffalo isolates are compared with those of 10 S.