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[Clinical aspects of Toxoplasma primary infection in pregnancy]
J Scheibe1, K R Schulz, H G Kupferschmidt
1Institut für Infektionskrankheiten und Tropenmedizin, Klinikum Berlin-Buch, DDR.
Angewandte Parasitologie
|June 1, 1988
Abstract:
Prevention of connatal toxoplasmosis is only possible by early diagnosis and treatment of toxoplasma-primoinfection in pregnancy. The authors describe the diagnostic approach and report on 110 pregnant women with toxoplasma-primoinfection. Treatment consisted in the application of pyrimethamine in combination with a sulfonamide or spiramycine. Side-effects of pyrimethamine are mentioned. The aim is an improvement of diagnosis and therapy.