Symptoms of toxoplasmosis in infants

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Toxoplasma gondii is a kind of intracellular parasite, also known as trisomiasis. If a woman is infected with Toxoplasma gondii but not treated completely, it will be transmitted to the fetus through the placenta during pregnancy, which will affect the development of the fetus and may lead to deformity or even death. Therefore, Toxoplasma examination should be done three months before pregnancy, which is an effective way to avoid the harm of Toxoplasma gondii to the fetus. Symptoms of toxoplasmosis in infants? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Symptoms of toxoplasmosis in infants

The clinical manifestations of congenital toxoplasmosis are complex. Most babies are asymptomatic at birth, and some of them develop retinochoroiditis, strabismus, blindness, epilepsy, psychomotor or mental retardation several months or years after birth.

Acute lymphadenitis is most common in the host with normal immune function, accounting for about 90%. Immune deficiency patients such as AIDS, organ transplantation, malignant tumor (mainly Hodgkin's disease) often have significant systemic symptoms, such as high fever, macular papule, myalgia, arthralgia, headache, vomiting, delirium, encephalitis, myocarditis, pneumonia, hepatitis, gastroenteritis, etc.

Most of ocular toxoplasmosis is congenital, and the postnatal findings may be caused by congenital potential lesions. Clinically, there are blurred vision, blind spot, fear of light, pain, lacrimal overflow, central vision loss, and few systemic symptoms. After the inflammation subsided, the vision improved, but often not completely recovered. There may be vitreous opacity.

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Objective to improve the medical staff and animal husbandry and veterinary staff's understanding of the disease and master the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. To investigate the infection situation and related factors of people and animals, especially livestock, so as to formulate practical control measures.