Toxoplasmose, uma doença congênita

Abstract

The toxoplasmosis is a universal disease and it is usually assymptomatic in healthy people, but it represents a serious problem in pregnant women. The alteration the happens in the pregnant’s immune system within this time helps that, when she is infected, the disease have a short expression to be recognized by doctors and even by the patient, but it still causes serious damage to the fetus. The mortality rate is 12% and the after-effect happens in 90% of the infected children, with a great ocular and central nervous system commitment. However, the transmission to the fetus has been limited to the cases where the women acquire the toxoplasmosis during the pregnancy. To those women who are infected before the conception there are no risks of fetal contamination, unless that its immune system is compromised. The toxoplasmosis’s standard lab diagnosis is based on the antibody research against the parasite and it has the aim of determine if the infection was acquired before or after the conception. This diagnosis must be preferably done when the woman has the intention of becoming pregnant or the more precious it is possible, because it is very important the premature detection and treatment.