OUTCOME OF GESTATION OF 32 PREGNANT WOMEN WITH TOXOPIASMA AND CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION

›› 1992, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (3): 219-221.

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OUTCOME OF GESTATION OF 32 PREGNANT WOMEN WITH TOXOPIASMA AND CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION

  

  • Received:2017-01-07 Revised:2017-01-07 Online:1992-08-31 Published:2017-01-09

Abstract: In an attempt to investigate the harmful effects of the infection of Toxoplasma and associated with cytomegalovirus on the fetus infection acquired transplaceatally during their mo- thers' pregnancy sera from 1000 pregnant women were tested for antobodies to both pathogens and the circulating antigen of Toxoplasma by using ELISA.The test was positive (titre≥1: 60400) in 32 of 1000 cases.Judging from the sero-positive results together with the case history,clinical manifestations and B-scan results,the 32 cases were edvised to end their pregnancy.Necropsy and pathological examinations of the foetuses revealed stillborn foetus,hy-drccephalus,acephalus,pleural effusion,ascites and other congenital malformations.Toxoplasma gondii were found in the tissues of 21 fetuses.