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The disease burden of congenital toxoplasmosis in Denmark, 2014
BACKGROUND Congenital toxoplasmosis (CT) causes a substantial disease burden worldwide. The aim of this study was to estimate the disease burden of CT in Denmark, a developed country with free public healthcare and nationwide data available. METHODS Using data primarily from two public health surveillance programmes conducted between 1992 and 2007, we estimated the incidence, occurrence of se...
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OBJECTIVE To estimate the global burden of congenital toxoplasmosis (CT), which results from infection of pregnant women with Toxoplasma gondii. METHODS The authors systematically searched 9 major databases for published and unpublished sources and established direct contact with the authors of source materials. Searches were country-specific. To be included, studies had to report on the inci...
متن کاملCongenital toxoplasmosis.
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...
متن کاملCongenital toxoplasmosis.
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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Since congenital toxoplasmosis was first recognized as a human infection 18 years ago, it has been found in many parts of the world, and, following the first report by Jacoby and Sagorin in 1948, over 50 cases have been recorded in the British literature. Only four of the reports from this country concern the findings in fatal cases (Cathie and Dudgeon, 1949; Valentine, 1952; Valentine, Lane, B...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/517511