The objective of this investigation was to describe systems for the epidemiological surveillance of congenital toxoplasmosis implemented in European countries. In September 2004, a questionnaire, adapted from the evaluation criteria published by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was sent to a panel of national correspondents in 35 countries in the European geographic...

The present study conducted a toxoplasmosis-related knowledge level survey with 400 pregnant and puerperal women attended in public health units in the municipality of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. Only 111 (27.8%) women claimed to know about the disease. Most of them (n = 289; 72.2%) had never heard about toxoplasmosis nor knew how to prevent the infection by Toxoplasma gondii. A significant differ...

PURPOSE To present the occurrence of the resolution of vitreomacular traction following intravitreal ranibizumab in two patients with inflammatory choroidal neovascular (CNV) membrane with a background of ocular toxoplasmosis. METHODS Interventional case report. RESULTS A 21-year-old Caucasian woman and a 52-year-old Caucasian man both presented with vitreomacular traction with coexistent c...

toxoplasma gondii as a protozoan parasite is the etiologic agent of toxoplasmosis. although t. gondii infection in healthy adults is asymptomatic; however, primary infection during pregnancy can cause severe complication such as fetus death and abortion, anatomical and mental malformation and ocular toxoplasmosis. it can be life threatening for immunocompromised person including cerebral absces...

The influence of latent toxoplasmosis on the phenotype , especially on the behaviour, of intermediate hosts has been intensively studied since the mid-1990s. The number of papers dealing with this topic that can be found in the Web of Knowledge SM by using the combination of terms toxoplasm* AND (behavi* OR psychol* OR per-sonalit* OR psychiatri* OR schizophr*) is rapidly in-Most of these paper...