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Toxoplasmosis in pregnancy and its transmission to the fetus.
Georges Desmonts,J. Couvreur +1 more
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This article is published in Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine.The article was published on 1974-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 141 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pregnancy & Toxoplasmosis.read more
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Toxoplasmosis: a history of clinical observations
Louis M. Weiss,Jitender P. Dubey +1 more
TL;DR: This review examines the clinical manifestations of infection with T. gondii and the history of the discovery of these manifestations.
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The history of Toxoplasma gondii--the first 100 years.
TL;DR: The history of Toxoplasma gondii and toxoplasmosis is reviewed and it is found that felids are its definitive host and an environmentally resistant stage (oocyst) is excreted in feces of infected cats.
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Congenital Toxoplasmosis a Prospective Study of 378 Pregnancies
Georges Desmonts,J. Couvreur +1 more
TL;DR: Treatment with spiramycin during pregnancy reduced the overall frequency of the fetal infections but not of overt disease, and Mothers with antibodies before they became pregnant had no infected infants.
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Drug repurposing and human parasitic protozoan diseases
TL;DR: In this paper, drug repurposing or repositioning is discussed with a focus on major human parasitic protozoan diseases such as malaria, trypanosomiasis, toxoplasmosis, cryptosporidiosis and leishmaniasis.
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Risk factors for Toxoplasma infection in pregnancy: a case-control study in France.
Laurence Baril,Thierry Ancelle,Veronique Goulet,Philippe Thulliez,Véronique Tirard-Fleury,Bernard Carme +5 more
TL;DR: Prevention campaigns among pregnant women in France could be improved and should focus on eating habits, hand hygiene and cats, and receipt of documentary advice on prevention was associated with a lower risk of infection.
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Toxoplasmosis in pregnancy.
C. F. Ruoss,G. L. Bourne +1 more
TL;DR: Seven of 3, 187 women investigated developed toxoplasmosis during pregnancy and a further two women developed the infection either shortly before or during early pregnancy, and nine patients were delivered of ten infants, none of which showed evidence of congential toxoplasma.