Toxoplasmosis in pregnant women
Bhaskar Das
Broschiertes Buch

Toxoplasmosis in pregnant women

Prevalence and clinical correlation

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Toxoplasmosis is caused by coccidian parasite Toxoplasma gondii. The route of transmission are ingestion of food or water contaminated with oocysts shed by cats, by eating meat containing infective tissue cysts and via transplacental transfer, when mother becomes infected for the first time during pregnancy. Toxoplasmosis is one of the cause of abortion in pregnant women. Transplacental passage of the parasite from infected mother to child may present with blindness, neurological impairment and mental retardation in congenital toxoplasmosis. It can cause mortality in developing fetus if the mo...