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 ...

•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...

BACKGROUND The biological diagnosis of toxoplasmosis after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is based on the detection of Toxoplasma gondii DNA in blood specimens or other samples. Serological testing is used mainly to define the immunity status of the patient before HSCT. The aim of our study was to examine the performance of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and serologi...

Latent toxoplasmosis is probably the most common protistan parasitic disease with many indirect negative impacts on human health. One of the important impacts is impaired psychomotor function leading to reduced driving efficiency in Toxoplasma-seropositive subjects. Numerous case-control studies have established a positive relation between the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii (Nicolle et Man...

BACKGROUND Congenital toxoplasmosis can cause significant neurologic manifestations and other untoward sequelae. METHODS The Palo Alto Medical Foundation Toxoplasma Serology Laboratory database was searched for data on infants 0 to 180 days old, in whom congenital toxoplasmosis had been confirmed and who had been tested for Toxoplasma gondii-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgM, and IgA antib...

UNLABELLED A meta-analysis was performed on three case controlled studies which examined the relationship between latent toxoplasmosis gondii infection in the immunocompetent host and cryptogenic epilepsy. Further comparison was also made by examining the seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis rates for 17 various countries, cities or regions against the prevalence rates for epilepsy in those regions....

In 1991-1997 educational activities were undertaken in the Poznań region of Poland to promote health education for the prevention of toxoplasmosis. The effect of education was measured in 2710 pregnant women by a questionnaire survey. Knowledge of toxoplasmosis and its prevention was almost doubled within 4 years. Similarly, the proportion of women having antenatal serological tests for toxopla...

Evidence that prevention, diagnosis and treatment of toxoplasmosis is beneficial developed as follows: anti-parasitic agents abrogate Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoite growth, preventing destruction of infected, cultured, mammalian cells and cure active infections in experimental animals, including primates. They treat active infections in persons who are immune-compromised, limit destruction of ret...