Toxoplasmosis in the perinatal period.

Toxoplasmosis in the perinatal period.

Although many of the fundamental biological features of toxoplasmosis are today well appreciated, the practical problem of prevention of its most serious consequence--disabling congenital disease, remains unsolved. The reasons vary in different communities, but are concerned with detection of the chief mode of spread, assessment of incidence, delineation of vulnerable antenatal women in latentl...

Perinatal Toxoplasmosis, Northern Taiwan

1460 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 12, No. 9, September 2006 Oliver Morgan,* Paul Crook,† Tom Cheasty,* Brian Jiggle,* Isabelle Giraudon,‡§ Harriett Hughes,¶ Stephen-Morris Jones,¶ and Helen Maguire‡# *Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom; †South West London Health Protection Unit, London, United Kingdom; ‡Health Protection Agency Londo...

Leptin in the Perinatal Period

perinatal period . Lead in teeth during the

IN a survey of the paediatric significance of environmental lead there was evidence that part of the maternal intake of lead may influence the fetus' (Barltrop, 1969). Lead is incorporated in calcified tissues, and the studies of Altshuller, Halak and Landing (1962) andof Needleman, Tuncay and Shapiro (1972) indicate that the primary teeth provide evidence of lead exposure during infancy, a typ...

Blood glucose concentration in the perinatal period.

Low blood sugar concentrations are common in infants, and concentrations which in the adult would be considered pathologically low may be physiological in the newborn in whom hypoglycaemia is not necessarily associated with symptoms (Ketteringham and Austin, 1938; McKittrick, 1940; Hanley and Horn, 1943; Norval, Kennedy, and Berkson, 1949; Wachter, 1949; Pedersen, 1952; Desmond, 1953; Lowrey, G...