Human Toxoplasmosis: Occurrence in Infants as an Encephalomyelitis Verification by Transmission to Animals

Wolf, Abner; Cowen, David; Paige, Beryl H.

doi:10.1126/science.89.2306.226

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“…Wolf et al in 1939 reported the first congenital infection of Toxoplasma in an infant (Wolf et al 1939). The parasite was identified as a coccidian after the 1960s (Weiss and Dubey 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Prevalence of Toxoplasma infection in veterinary laboratory sciences students comparing to ordinary people: a case–control study

Sadaghian

Jafari

2014

J Parasit Dis

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Toxoplasma gondii causes the foremost widespread protozoan infection with a broad variety of host range, which consists of regarding of almost all warmblooded vertebrates. There are some opinions concerning the probable occupational influence on infections to Toxoplasma in veterinary services personnel. The present study aimed to examine influence of studying in veterinary laboratory sciences as a risk factor on the prevalence rate of Toxoplasma infection in the students. In this case-control study, 80 blood samples were taken from veterinary laboratory sciences students (VLSS) as a case group and 80 blood samples from ordinary people of general population as a control group with the relatively same age, gender and health condition. Anti-Toxoplasma IgG levels in the serum samples were determined using quantitative ELISA method. According to the results, 27 (33.75 %) out of 80 samples of the cases group and also 29 (36.2 %) out of 80 samples of the control group were infected by the parasite. No statistically significant difference observed in the infection rate between the case and control groups (P = 0.740, OR 0.931; 95 % CI 0.61, 1.421). The mean serum antibody concentration in infected subjects of case and control groups showed no statistically significant difference (P = 0.618, t = 0.502). Normality of the data was assumed using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (P = 0.806, Z = 0.641). Based on the results, in veterinary laboratory science students, toxoplasmosis is not related to their career and also the subjects of this group as the other people have the same risk to infect by this protozoan parasite.

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“…Wolf et al in 1939 reported the first congenital infection of Toxoplasma in an infant (Wolf et al 1939). The parasite was identified as a coccidian after the 1960s (Weiss and Dubey 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prevalence of Toxoplasma infection in veterinary laboratory sciences students comparing to ordinary people: a case–control study

Sadaghian

Jafari

2014

J Parasit Dis

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“…Toxoplasmosis affecting the eye was first described in 1938 in a postmortem study of an infant with severe encephalomyelitis and bilateral retinochoroiditis (Wolf et al 1939). Subsequent reports of congenital toxoplasmosis confirmed its association with retinochoroiditis.…”

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confidence: 85%

Treating ocular toxoplasmosis: current evidence

Stanford¹,

Gilbert

2009

Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz

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“…Oocyst transmitted infections, or those directly associated with felid feces, may be more severe than tissue cyst induced infections, or those often associated with intermediate hosts (Teutsch and others, 1979;Benenson and others, 1982;Dubey and Beattie, 1988;Smith, 1993;Bowie and others, 1997;Burnett and others, 1998). Transfusion or organ transplantation from an infected person can also transmit the organism; transplant-associated toxoplasmosis is common enough that prophylactic treatment is standard procedure in Wolf, Cowen, and Paige (1939), it has become recognized as a significant cause of disease in infants and children, as well as adults who may suffer from delayed conditions originating from congenital infections. In the United States, 400-4,000 infants are born each year with congenital toxoplasmosis (Hughes and Colley, 2000).…”

Section: Human Infectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%