%0 Journal Article %T Metagenomic next-generation sequencing as a diagnostic tool for toxoplasmic encephalitis %A Chunhua Xu %A Cong Cheng %A Hongxia Wei %A Xing Weng %A Yang Lin %A Zhiliang Hu %J Archive of "Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials". %D 2018 %R 10.1186/s12941-018-0298-1 %X Brain magnetic resonance imaging before and after anti-Toxoplasma gondii therapy. At admission, brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed multiple brain abnormalities (a T2-FLARE imaging) with enhancement (b contrast-enhanced MRI). After treated as toxoplasmosis encephalitis for 11 days, a following-up brain MRI showed significant improvement of brain lesions(c T2-FLARE imaging; d contrast-enhanced MRI %K Next-generation sequencing %K Toxoplasmic encephalitis %K Diffuse brain lesions %K Toxoplasma gondii %K Human immunodeficiency virus %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6305995/