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A proven case of congenital toxoplasmosis.
Congenital toxoplasmosis has been recognized with increasing frequency since it was first described by Wolf, Cowen, and Paige in 1939, and has now been reported from many parts of the world. The first description of a case in this country was given by Jacoby and Sagorin in 1948. Since then a number of others have been reported (Farquhar and Turner, 1949; Wilson and Smith, 1949; Ridley, 1949; Nu...
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Toxoplasmosis is caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. In the United States, approximately 85% of women of childbearing age are susceptible to acute infection with T. gondii. Acute infections in pregnant women may cause serious health problems when the organism is transmitted to the fetus (congenital toxoplasmosis), including mental retardation, seizures, blindness,...
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Congenital toxoplasmosis results from the transplacental transmission of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii after a maternal infection acquired in pregnancy. Prevalence of congenital infection ranges from 0.1 to 0.3 per 1000 live births. The maternal-fetal transmission rate increases with gestational age at maternal seroconversion, from less than 15% at 13 weeks of gestation to over 70% at 36 weeks...
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The history of toxoplasmosis began in 1923 with the F first published description of a human case, a congenitally infected baby. Toxoplasma gondii had been recognised 15 years earlier, but it was not until 1%96 that the life cycle of this protozoan parasite was understood, with the discovery that the definitive host : was any member of the cat family (fig 1).' 2 _ Despite extensive clinical and...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1953
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.6.4.253