Longer pregnancy and slower fetal development in women with latent "asymptomatic" toxoplasmosis
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Longer pregnancy and slower fetal development in women with latent "asymptomatic" toxoplasmosis
BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to confirm that women with latent toxoplasmosis have developmentally younger fetuses at estimated pregnancy week 16 and to test four exclusive hypotheses that could explain the observed data. METHODS In the present retrospective cohort study we analysed by the GLM (general linear model) method data from 730 Toxoplasma-free and 185 Toxoplasma-infected p...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Infectious Diseases
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1471-2334
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-114