Screening of Maternal Toxoplasmosis in Pregnancy: Laboratory Diagnostics from the Perspective of Public Health Requirements
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For more than three decades, mother-child care programs have included screening for Toxoplasma infections in pregnancy by means of laboratory tests from blood samples in some countries (esp. Austria and France) [1-3]. Recently, despite much international research, the efficiency of this approach in preventing toxoplasmosis in the fetus has been questioned, more on the ground of inconclusive data than on convincing study results [4-8].
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