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Toxoplasmosis
Physicians recommend screening for all pregnant women, newborns
March 3rd, 2005
Physicians with the University of Chicago Medical Center have found that signs, symptoms, and identifiable risk factors are absent in more than half of the mothers of infants with congenital toxoplasmosis in a U.S. national study of children with this disease. More than half of the pregnant women in the study who were at risk for acute infection with Toxoplasma gondii could not be identified by history or routine examination. Therefore, the physicians recommend that systematic screening for acute acquired toxoplasmosis for all pregnant women in the United States during prenatal visits, as well as screening for congenital toxoplasmosis in all newborns, become...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-03-03)
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