Congenital Toxoplasmosis: Scientific Background, Clinical Management and Control

ISBN-13: 9782287596643 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 324 str.

Pierre Ambroise-Thomas; Eskild Petersen; P. Ambroise-Thomas

Opis

This book is based on the experience of an European Network on Congenital Toxoplasmosis which associates more than 50 European specialized Centers from 17 diferent European Countries. Some American colleagues among the best specialists in the world also collaborate to this book which gives the most recent data on congenital toxoplasmosis in epidemiology, biology, clinical symptoms, diagnostic, treatment and prevention.

Spis treści

Scientific background: Introduction. Biology. Placenta Physiology. Immunology & Congenital Toxoplasmosis. Biological Diagnosis. Treatment.- Congenital Toxoplasmosis in the pregnant women and unborn child, or Prenatal Toxoplasma infection or Toxoplasma infection during pregnancy: Clinical picture, diagnosis, management.- Toxoplasma infection after birth: The newborn child with Congenital Toxoplasmosis. Clinical picture, diagnosis, management. Late onset Toxoplasmosis. Epidemiology and Control: Epidemiology in the Human population. Veterinary aspects of Toxoplasma infection. Prevention of Toxoplasma infection. Pre-natal screening. Vaccines.