Toxoplasmosis and pregnancy

SA Chaudhry, N Gad, G Koren - Canadian Family Physician, 2014 - cfp.ca
Question Congenital toxoplasmosis is a dangerous fetal infection. Why is routine screening
for Toxoplasma gondii infection during pregnancy not available for most Canadians …

Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of Congenital Toxoplasmosis Diagnosis: Advances and Challenges

PS Franco, ACMO Scussel, RJ Silva… - Journal of Tropical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. To understand how congenital toxoplasmosis (CT) diagnosis has evolved over
the years, we performed a systematic review and meta‐analysis to summarize the kind of …

[HTML][HTML] Toxoplasma serology status and risk of miscarriage, a case-control study among women with a history of spontaneous abortion

F Kheirandish, B Ezatpour, S Fallahi… - … journal of fertility & …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Toxoplasma gondii is one of the major causes of abortion in pregnant women.
Most cases of abortion occur in the acute phase of infection and early pregnancy. The …

Impact of a rapid decline in malaria transmission on antimalarial IgG subclasses and avidity

I Ssewanyana, J Rek, I Rodriguez, L Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Understanding how immunity to malaria is affected by declining transmission is important to
aid vaccine design and understand disease resurgence. Both IgG subclasses and avidity of …

The importance of IgG avidity and the polymerase chain reaction in treating toxoplasmosis during pregnancy: current knowledge

J Bortoletti Filho, E Araujo Júnior… - Interdisciplinary …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A brief report on the nature and epidemiology of T. gondii infection is firstly presented. The
importance of the specific IgG avidity test and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for …

Immunological and Molecular study of Toxoplasma gondii from aborted women in Diyala/Iraq

MJ Shaker, NH Darweesh, RA Hussein, ST Salman - 2018 - sjomr.org.in
Objective: To determine the infection rate of T. gondii in aborted women, and to investigate
the relationship between toxoplasmosis and some of the sociodemographic factors …

Avidity of anti-malarial antibodies inversely related to transmission intensity at three sites in Uganda

I Ssewanyana, E Arinaitwe, JI Nankabirwa, A Yeka… - Malaria journal, 2017 - Springer
Background People living in malaria endemic areas acquire protection from severe malaria
quickly, but protection from clinical disease and control of parasitaemia is acquired only after …

Toxoplasma gondii – Prevalence and Risk Factors in HIV-infected Patients from Songklanagarind Hospital, Southern Thailand

W Chemoh, N Sawangjaroen, P Siripaitoon… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Toxoplasmosis is one of the most common opportunistic parasitic diseases in patients living
with HIV/AIDS. This study aimed to determine the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma infection in …

Detection of persistent low IgG avidity–an interpretative problem in the diagnosis of acute toxoplasmosis

P Kodym, Z Kurzová, D Berenová, M Malý - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Objectives For the proper diagnosis of toxoplasmosis it is essential to determine the stage of
the infection, for which the most preferred method is IgG avidity test. The avidity index (AI) …

Usefulness of paired samples for the Serodiagnosis of toxoplasmosis infection in a tertiary teaching Hospital in Malaysia

P Thangarajah, K Hajissa, WK Wong… - BMC infectious …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background Accurate diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) infection remains
elusive and requires a comprehensive assessment through laboratory and clinical …