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Toxoplasma gondii infects a variety of vertebrate hosts, including humans. Transplacental passage of the parasite leads to congenital toxoplasmosis. A primary infection during the first weeks of ...

Toxoplasma gondii is an unicellular coccidian parasite with worldwide distribution. It is estimated that more than a third of the world's population has been infected with the parasite, but ...

Prenatal treatment of congenital toxoplasmosis with antibiotics might substantially reduce the proportion of infected fetuses that develop serious neurological sequelae (brain damage, epilepsy, ...

Professor Maritza Jaramillo knows a thing or two about parasites—she has spent most of her life studying them. "During my bachelor's degree in Colombia, I did an internship at a lab specializing in ...

Congenital toxoplasmosis can be largely mitigated with prenatal testing and treatment protocols that are safe and easy to perform. "Those who conducted the Toxogest clinical trial did not incorporate ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2012;10(7):815-828. Treatment should be given to newborns when the diagnosis of fetal infection was made during gestation, regardless of whether the mother received ...

Imagine the shock of your baby being born with a swollen brain, blindness and debilitating seizures. Now imagine learning that these devastating conditions could have been prevented if you took a ...