Postnatal follow-up of infants born to mothers with certain Toxoplasma gondii infection: Evaluation of prenatal management;Follow-up post-natale in nati da madre con infezione certa da Toxoplasma gondii: Considerazioni sul management prenatale

Infezioni in Medicina

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 72-78

  Di Carlo, Paola ^a   Mazzola, Angela ^b   Romano, Amelia ^b   Schimmenti, Maria Gabriella ^b   Colicchia, Paola ^a   Bellipanni, Piero ^b   Titone, Lucina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Civico e Benfratelli Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Congenital infection; Pregnancy outcome; Toxoplasma gondii; Treatment

Indexed keywords

PYRIMETHAMINE; SPIRAMYCIN; SULFADIAZINE;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERINATAL CARE; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDIZATION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CHORIORETINITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; ITALY; LEUCOVORIN; MALE; PREDNISONE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; PRENATAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PYRIMETHAMINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPIRAMYCIN; SULFADIAZINE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR;

EID: 22544475294     PISSN: 11249390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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