BACKGROUND Toxoplasmosis, listeriosis and cytomegalovirus (CMV) can negatively affect pregnancy outcomes, but can be prevented by simple precautions of pregnant women. Literature suggests that pregnant women are not always adequately informed by their care provider about preventable infectious diseases and most pregnant women have a low level of knowledge regarding these topics. There is not mu...

BACKGROUND Toxoplasmosis is an uncommon but potentially fatal complication following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT). Post-transplant toxoplasmosis is often a reactivation of prior infection and typically occurs within the first 6 months of transplant. Herein, we report that cerebral toxoplasmosis may occur 22 months after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantat...

The development of TempToxopert aimed at assisting clinicians in analysing the results of prenatal toxoplasmosis screening tests. Expert knowledge about diagnostics, screening strategies, and treatment of toxoplasmosis during pregnancy was collected and represented as a rule-based decision graph. Based on actual and past individual findings, the system generates case-specific interpretative rep...

background: the assays currently available for the detection of specific anti- toxoplasma antibodies may vary in their abilities to detect serum immunoglobulins, due to the lack of a purified standardized antigen. the aim of this study was evaluation the recombinant toxoplasma gondii sag1 antigen for the serodiagnosis of acute and chronic toxoplasmosis. methods : this study describes an elisa u...

this research aims to design the portfolio entrepreneurship model and to analyze the effect of social capital, prior experience and knowledge, the entrepreneur’s financial resources, as well as human capital on portfolio entrepreneurship and also to investigate the effect of portfolio entrepreneurship on recognition of new opportunities, as well as business growth and development. the research ...

Abstract Introduction: Toxoplasmosis is a disease of global distribution caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which develops differently depending on immunologic status patient. In immunocompetent patients, it usually asymptomatic and complications such as pneumonitis, encephalitis, or multiple organ dysfunction are rare. The following case an patient with acute disseminated toxoplasmosis....

Toxoplasmosis causes mortality in several avian species, especially passerine birds. Toxoplasmosis was diagnosed in a bar-shouldered dove (Geopelia humeralis) found dead at the zoo of Clères (France). The bird had necrotizing pneumonia and nephritis with intralesional tachyzoites of Toxoplasma gondii. The diagnosis was confirmed by immunostaining with polyclonal rabbit T. gondii antibodies and ...

AN opportunity presented itself in September and October, 1958, to observe African patients with chorio-retinitis in Kano, Nigeria. Although it was not possible to carry out detailed studies on these patients, blood sera were taken and tested for antibodies to Toxoplasma, a protozoan parasite. The results of these tests are of interest. Wolf, Cowen, and Paige (1938) established toxoplasmosis as...