Toxoplasmosis in the Adult — An Overview

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  • JKJames A. Krick
    James A. Krick
  • JRJack S. Remington
    Jack S. Remington
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Abstract
INFECTION with Toxoplasma gondii exists in chronic asymptomatic form in approximately 50 per cent of the population in the United States. T. gondii is clinically important in the adult for three major reasons: it may cause lymphadenopathy; as an opportunist, it may cause a lethal infection in the immunologically compromised host; and it is responsible for at least 3000 congenitally infected infants in the United States yearly, thus making correct interpretation of serologic tests in the woman who is pregnant (or thinking of becoming so) an urgent matter.1 , 2 Life CycleThe protozoan T. gondii is found throughout the world in . . .

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