Toxoplasmosis found more severe in Brazil compared to Europe

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Wed, 08/13/2008 - 23:00

(Public Library of Science) Newborns in Brazil are more susceptible to toxoplasmosis than those in Europe, according to a recent study.

Researchers based in Austria, Brazil, Denmark, France, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom studied the disease's ocular effects in children from birth to four years of age.

Details are published Aug. 13 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.


 

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