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Toxoplasma gondii specific IgA and IgM antibodies were quantitated by an antibody capture agglutination assay in 260 patients with acquired toxoplasmosis and from 94 fetuses suspected of congenital toxoplasmosis and 30 infected children. In acquired toxoplasmosis, IgA antibodies to Tgondii were found in 95% of the cases.

Objective-A potent heteronymous group II excitation of quadriceps motor neurons has been recently demonstrated in normal subjects. The present study was undertaken to investigate whether this heteronymous group II excitation also contributes to spasticity in hemiplegic patients. Method-The early and late facilitations of the quadriceps H reflex elicited by a conditioning volley to the common peroneal nerve at three times motor threshold, attributed to non-monosynaptic group I and group II excitations respectively, were investigated. The comparison was drawn between results obtained in 20 patients after stroke, with hemiplegia due to a vascular lesion in the territory of the middle cerebral artery, and 20 age and sex matched normal subjects. Conclusion-These results reflect a facilitation of the transmission in the interneuronal pathway coactivated by group I and group II aVerents, probably resulting from a change in their descending control in spastic hemiplegic patients. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2001;70:36-42)

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