Physicians recommend screening for toxoplasmosis for all pregnant women, newborns
...han half of the mothers of infants with congenital toxoplasmosis in a national study of children with this disease....mmend that systematic screening for acute acquired toxoplasmosis for all pregnant women in the United States during prenatal visits, as well as screening for congeni...To stem disease, keep cats indoors, stop feeding strays, scientist urges
...earch is needed to clarify the association between toxoplasmosis and mental health, but until such time that this a...infections, he said. "Evidence is mounting to link toxoplasmosis with schizophrenia or similar psychiatric disorders (in people)," McAllister wrote. "Recent studies ...Scientists find stronger evidence for link between cat faeces and schizophrenia
... individuals, providing new clues for how we treat toxoplasmosis and schizophrenia." Previous epidemiological and neuropathological studies have indicated some cases of schizophrenia may be associated with environmental factors, such as exposure to the parasite T. gondii. At the same time several of the medic...A new way of looking at molecular motors
... they discovered that the molecular motors enabled toxoplasmosis and malaria parasites to force their way into human cells. The researchers say that although their research is theoretical and a long way from clinical applications, the new classification system will help other researchers address important biomedi...Full year of treatment helps infants and children with toxoplasmosis
...ited States and Canada who had been diagnosed with toxoplasmosis soon after birth and were referred, between 1981 a...year ago, the research team recommended systematic toxoplasmosis screening for all pregnant women in the United States during prenatal visits, as well as screening f...... next host in the life cycle, a cat. While latent toxoplasmosis is usually benign, the parasite's subtle effect on individual personality appears to alter aggregate personality at the population level. Drivers of the geographic variation in the prevalence of this parasite include the effects of climate on the pe...Cat parasite may affect cultural traits in human populations
...or antibodies because of the serious risk posed by toxoplasmosis to fetuses, which lack their own immune systems. The results of previous work suggested that Toxoplasma could affect specific elements of human culture. Toxoplasma is associated with different, often opposite, behavioral changes in men and women, b...Bad blood between boys and girls
Women infected with dormant toxoplasmosis are more likely to give birth to boys than women w...obability of the birth of a boy in humans. Latent toxoplasmosis is asymptomatic but is usually a life-long infection characterised by the presence of anti-Toxoplasm...Cluster of journals publish findings on dangerous parasite, Toxoplasma gondii
...ts. Their findings about "Toxoplasma gondii" and toxoplasmosis were published recently in three major scientific ...dies when they host an international conference on toxoplasmosis from June 29-July 2 at Chico Hot Springs, Mont. Toxoplasmosis is normally associated with medical ......such as people infected with HIV. In severe cases, toxoplasmosis can cause damage to the brain and eyes, and even d...damental, atomic-level detail of how diseases like toxoplasmosis pick out and invade host cells in the human body is vital if we want to fight these diseases effecti...