Incidence of anti-toxoplasma antibodies in women with high-risk pregnancy and habitual abortions

• Main Authors: Maria de la Luz Galvan Ramirez, Juan Luis Soto Mancilla, Oscar Velasco Castrejon, Roberto Perez Medina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1995
• Subjects: Toxoplasmosis; Embarazo de alto riesgo; Aborto habitual; High-risk pregnancy; Habitual abortion; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Obligado
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/cd427a7af78743098767ba7b94df13bf

Toxoplasmosis is a zoonosis caused by Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular parasite. In pregnant women on the worldwide scale, there are seroprevalences from 7% to 51.3% and in women with abnormal pregnancies and abortions the seroprevalences vary from 17.5% to 52.3%. In Mexico, seropositivi...