Too late prenatal diagnosis of fetal toxoplasmosis: A case report

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 190-193

  Nowakowska, Dorota ^a   Respondek Liberska, Maria ^b   Golab, Elzbieta ^c   Stray Pedersen, Babill ^d   Szaflik, Krzysztof ^b   Dzbenski, Tadeusz H ^b   Wilczynski, Jan ^a  

^a POLISH MOTHER S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b RIPMMH   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^d OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Congenital toxoplasmosis; Hydrocephalus; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

FANSIDAR; FOLINIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; SPIRAMYCIN;

ADULT; AMNION FLUID; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CHOROID DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INOCULATION; MALE; MUSCLE TONE; NEWBORN; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SEROLOGY; SERUM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; BRAIN DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CHOROIDITIS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUCOVORIN; MICE; MUSCULAR DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PYRIMETHAMINE; RETINITIS; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SULFADOXINE; TIME FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 17844374100     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000083903     Document Type: Article

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