toxiplasmosis Flashcards
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TOXOPLASMOSIS
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intracellular parasite- definitive hosts are members of the feline family-litter boxes etc-turn into tissue cysts These cysts remain in skeletal and heart muscle, brain and retinal tissue, and lymph Congenital infection results most commonly from the transplacental transmission of Tgondii after maternal primary infection during pregnancy, during a time of high parasite burden witht achyzoites.-also women who are infectly shortly becomeing pregnant (<3 mo) can also carry disease and give to child and also mabe a diff kind of t gondii
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syMptoms of toxoplasmosis
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asymptomatic at birth-then Chorioretinitis can be up to 20% that get lesions and 90% if untreated motor and cerebellar disfunction microcephaly seizueres intellectual disabilities sensorineural hearing loss
