Toxoplasmosis: The Zoonotic Disease Pregnant Women Need to Beware

Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease, is a disease in animals that can be transmitted to humans. The disease is caused by Sporozoa known as Toxoplasma gondii, an intracellular parasite that infected many humans and pets. Toxoplasmosis Patients often do not show a clear clinical symptoms, so in determining the diagnosis of the disease toxoplasmosis is often overlooked in everyday medical practice. If the disease toxoplasmosis the third trimesters of pregnant women, it can lead to hidrochephalus, khorioretinitis, deafness or epilepsy.
Toxoplasmosis is usually transmitted from cats or dogs but the disease can also infect other animals such as pigs, cattle, sheep, and other pets. Although common in animals above mentioned disease toxoplasmosis is most commonly found in cats and dogs. For contracting toxoplasmosis does not only happen to people who keep cats or dogs but can also occur in other people who like to eat food from undercooked meat or contaminated vegetables fresh vegetables with toxoplasmosis disease-causing agent.
Today, after the life cycle of toxoplasma found its prevention efforts are expected to more easily done. At this time the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis becomes easier to find because of the IgM or IgG antibodies in the blood of patients. Expected by way of the treatment of this disease diagnosis easier and more perfect, so that treatment can be given a complete recovery for patients toxoplasmosis. In this way it is expected that the incidence of miscarriage, congenital defects and stillbirth caused by the disease can be prevented as early as possible. Ultimately incidence disabilities in children can be avoided and create human resources of a higher quality. 
Toxopasmosis is a zoonotic disease that can attack human nature, animals, pets such as wild animals, birds and others. Incidence of toxoplasmosis have been reported from several areas in the world that is very broad geography. A survey of this incident illustrates that toxoplasmosis in an area can be so great that every animal showing symptoms of toxoplasmosis.
In humans the disease toxoplasmosis is often infected through the digestive tract, usually through the medium of food or water contaminated with the agent that causes toxoplasmosis, for example because of drinking cow's milk or eating meat that has not been perfect maturation of the animals infected with the disease toxoplasmosis. The disease is also common in cats that kind of race and color beautiful hairy usually referred to by mink, toxoplasmosis in mink race cats often occur because the food is normally derived from fresh meat (raw) and the remnants of meat from a slaughterhouse.  

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