toxoplasmosis in men?

[petiteflower]

HI,

I have a friend at work whose son was just recently diagnosed with toxoplasmosis. I have heard of this in pregnant women before, from handling litter boxes, or improperly cooked meat, but never in a teenage boy.

He started out with a couple of inguinal lymph nodes and flu like symptoms with weakness. The doctor ended up removing 2 nodes and sent them for testing.

I am trying to find as much information for her as I can--and you guys always seem to be a wealth of info.

Any would be appreciated.

thanks

[BarbPick]

It is an opportunistic infection , usually shows up in people who had some type of immune insuffiency, natural low IGG levels, organ transplant patients or HIV patients

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

What Barb said. Toxo is all around us, but it's usually in immunocomprosmised people it is seen, especially HIV positive persons.

[nowplayingEDRN]

Barb and Tweety.....

that was exactly what I was going to say. It is usually seen in the immunocompromised pt, primarily.

[Katnip, RN]

Yeah, it isn't gender specific...pregnant women are vulnerable because of the potential harm to the fetus, not to themselves and not because they're female.