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Congenital toxoplasmosis

Scientific Background, Clinical Management and Control

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Pierre Ambroise-Thomas

    1. Faculté de Médecine de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

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  2. Peter Eskild Petersen

    1. Statenserum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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  • This book is based on the experience of an European Network on Congenital Toxoplasmosis which associates more than 50 European specialized Centers from 17 differrent European Countries
  • Some American colleagues among the best specialists in the world also collaborate to this book which gives the most recent data on congenital toxoplasmosis in epidemiology, biology, clinical symptoms, and diagnostic treatment and prevention

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Table of contents (27 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Scientific background

    1. Congenital toxoplasmosis: past, present and future

      • P. Ambroise-Thomas, E. Petersen
      Pages 1-7

    2. Biology of Toxoplasma gondii

      • J. K. Frenkel
      Pages 9-25

    3. Placenta physiology

      • P. Ebbesen
      Pages 27-35

    4. Basic immunology: the fetus and the newborn

      • R. McLeod, M. Dowel
      Pages 37-68

    5. The immunology of Toxoplasma gondii infection in the immune-competent host

      • J. Alexander, C. W. Roberts, W. Walker, G. Reichmann, C. A. Hunter
      Pages 69-82

    6. Biological diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis: methods

      • H. Pelloux, P. Ambroise-Thomas
      Pages 83-94

    7. Drugs effective against Toxoplasma gondii . Present status and future perspective

      • F. Derouin
      Pages 95-110

  3. Acquired toxoplasmosis in pregnant woman and the unborn child

    1. Clinical aspects of infection during pregnancy

      • F. Jacquemard
      Pages 111-120

    2. Diagnosis in the pregnant woman

      • U. Gross, H. Pelloux
      Pages 121-130

    3. Laboratory diagnosis of fetal toxoplasmosis

      • S. Romand, P. Thulliez
      Pages 131-139

    4. Effect of treatment of the infected pregnant woman and her foetus

      • B. Stray-Pedersen, W. Foulon
      Pages 141-152

  4. Toxoplasma infection after birth : the newborn child with congenital toxoplasmosis

    1. Clinical picture. Neonatal signs and symptoms

      • M. Hayde, A. Pollak
      Pages 153-164

    2. Ophthalmology in the neonate with congenital toxoplasmosis

      • A. P. Brézin
      Pages 165-177

    3. Biological post-natal diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis

      • E. Candolfi, H. Pelloux
      Pages 179-188

    4. Management of and outcome for the newborn infant with congenital toxoplasmosis

      • R. McLeod, K. Boyer, the Toxoplasmosis Study Group and Collaborators
      Pages 189-213

    5. Recurrent ocular disease in congenital toxoplasmosis: clinical manifestations

      • A. Rothova
      Pages 215-229

    6. Laboratory diagnosis of ocular toxoplasmosis: serological and PCR based analysis of ocular fluids

      • A. Kijlstra
      Pages 231-235

  5. Epidemiology and control

    1. Epidemiology of infection in pregnant women

      • R. Gilbert
      Pages 237-249

    2. Epidemiology of ocular Toxoplasma

      • M. Stanford, R. Gilbert
      Pages 251-259
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About this book

This book is based on the experience of an European Network on Congenital Toxoplasmosis which associates more than 50 European specialized Centers from 17 diferent European Countries. Some American colleagues among the best specialists in the world also collaborate to this book which gives the most recent data on congenital toxoplasmosis in epidemiology, biology, clinical symptoms, diagnostic, treatment and prevention.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculté de Médecine de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

    Pierre Ambroise-Thomas

  • Statenserum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Peter Eskild Petersen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Congenital toxoplasmosis

  • Book Subtitle: Scientific Background, Clinical Management and Control

  • Editors: Pierre Ambroise-Thomas, Peter Eskild Petersen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0847-5

  • Publisher: Springer Paris

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag France 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-2-287-59664-3Published: 01 November 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-2-8178-0847-5Published: 27 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 324

  • Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Gynecology, Immunology, Pediatrics, General Practice / Family Medicine, Internal Medicine

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