Toxoplasmosis is a worldwide zoonosis that generally produces an asymptomatic infection. In some cases, however, toxoplasmosis infection can lead to ocular damage. The immune system has a crucial role in both the course of the infection and in the evolution of toxoplasmosis disease. In particular, IFN-gamma plays an important role in resistance to toxoplasmosis. Polymorphisms in genes encoding ...

Feline enteric coronavirus (FECV) infects enterocytes and causes inflammation of the intestinal mucosa in young cats, resulting diarrhea. In adult cats infection is usually asymptomatic, but constant circulation FECV feline population increases likelihood mutation, as a result which about 5-10% infected develop virulent strain virus that lethal infectious peritonitis – FIP. The purpose this stu...

Manuls or Pallas' cats (Felis manul, syn. Otocolobus manul) are endangered wild cats from Central Asia kept and bred in many zoos. Despite good breeding success young cats frequently die from acute toxoplasmosis. From 1998 to 2002, a breeding pair in the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, gave birth to 24 kittens; 58 % of kittens died between the 2nd and the 14th week of life, mostly due to acu...

The latex agglutination test for toxoplasmosis was performed on 690 blood samples collected from the Veterans and Bang Bua Thong Hospitals in Bangkok. Blood samples were collected in the first- and the third-trimester from pregnant women and from the cord blood. The seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in the first trimester was 13.14%, 13.60%; in the third trimester was 12.21%, 9.43% and in the cor...

BACKGROUND Ocular toxoplasmosis is a potentially blinding cause of posterior uveitis. Retinal detachment is rare complication of ocular toxoplasmosis. AIM To report the clinical course and prognosis of retinal breaks and detachments occurring in patients with ocular toxoplasmosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study was a retrospective, non-comparative case series of five patients with ocular t...

Ocular toxoplasmosis is a common vision-threatening disease in Indonesia. Diagnosis of this disease is based on characteristic ophthalmoscopic appearances and laboratory findings. Between 1985 and 1989, the authors retrospectively evaluated 41 children under 12 years of age. Thirteen cases had retinal lesions suspected to be toxoplasmosis but the laboratory findings were negative. The remaining...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the factors associated to toxoplasmosis-related knowledge among pregnant women attending public health services in the municipality of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. METHODS this is a cross-sectional study conducted with pregnant women assisted in eight health care units; data was collected using a standardized questionnaire, from April 2013 to February 2015. RESULTS ...

PURPOSE To present unique cystoid changes occurring in patients with ocular toxoplasmosis observed in spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT). METHODS Forty-six patients (80 eyes) with a diagnosis of ocular toxoplasmosis, who underwent volume OCT examination between January 2005 and October 2012, were retrospectively collected. Review of clinical examination findings, fundus photog...

•To consider differential diagnosis for multiple ring enhancing lesions in an immunocompromised patient.•To highlight the characteristic imaging features of toxoplasmosis: ‘‘concentric and eccentric target signs’’.•To radiologically demonstrate intracranial course oculomotor nerve its nucleus.•To lay stress on rare causes Weber’s syndrome: Cerebral toxoplasmosis our case. A 25-year-old male, HI...

background: toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by protozoan, toxoplasma gondii. infections of human are common and are usually asymptomatic. the infection may be serious if is transmitted to the fetus during pregnancy. prophylactic measures, early detection of the infection and treatment can avoid congenital toxoplasmosis and many long term effects. objective: seroepidemiological study...