Toxoplasmosis and pregnancy.

[congenital toxoplasmosis]

Question Congenital toxoplasmosis is a dangerous fetal infection . Why is routine screening for Toxoplasma gondii infection during pregnancy not available for most Canadians ? Answer Low prevalence of the infection , high cost associated with testing , low sensitivity of screening tests , false-positive test results , and limitations of treatment effectiveness are all cited as reasons for not routinely screening for T gondii infection in Canada . Currently , screening for the detection of T gondii is only performed in Nunavik and other parts of northern Quebec owing to the high prevalence of infection in this region . Congenital toxoplasmosis causes neurologic or ocular disease (leading to blindness ), as well as cardiac and cerebral anomalies .

Diseases
Validation

Diseases presenting "high prevalence" symptom

22q11.2 deletion syndrome

acute rheumatic fever

adrenal incidentaloma

allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

alpha-thalassemia

cholangiocarcinoma

classical phenylketonuria

congenital adrenal hyperplasia

congenital toxoplasmosis

cowden syndrome

cutaneous mastocytosis

cystinuria

dracunculiasis

dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa

erdheim-chester disease

erythropoietic protoporphyria

fabry disease

familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia

familial mediterranean fever

gm1 gangliosidosis

heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

homocystinuria without methylmalonic aciduria

junctional epidermolysis bullosa

kabuki syndrome

legionellosis

lymphangioleiomyomatosis

neuralgic amyotrophy

oculocutaneous albinism

oligodontia

oral submucous fibrosis

papillon-lefèvre syndrome

pendred syndrome

phenylketonuria

primary hyperoxaluria type 1

pyomyositis

scrub typhus

sneddon syndrome

trochlear dysplasia

waldenström macroglobulinemia

wiskott-aldrich syndrome

zellweger syndrome

You can validate or delete this automatically detected symptom