Fatal outbreak of human toxoplasmosis along the Maroni River: Epidemiological, clinical, and parasitological aspects

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Demar, Magalie ^a,h   Ajzenberg, Daniel ^d,e   Maubon, Danielle ^a   Djossou, Félix ^a   Panchoe, Dayanand ^f   Punwasi, Widya ^f   Valery, Nasser ^c   Peneau, Christian ^c   Daigre, Jean Louis ^b   Aznar, Christine ^a   Cottrelle, Benoit ^b   Terzan, Laurence ^g   Dardé, Marie Laure ^d,e   Carme, Bernard ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE CAYENNE   (French Guiana)

^b Directorate of Health and Social Development

^c Saint Laurent du Maroni Hospital   (French Guiana)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^e LIMOGES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f Epidemiology Unit   (Suriname)

^g Ministry for Foreign Affairs   (Suriname)

^h Unit of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine   (French Guiana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFANT; INOCULATION; MOUSE; MULTIVISCERAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; FETUS DEATH; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SURINAME; TOXOPLASMA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SURINAME; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 34848812882     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521246     Document Type: Article

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