Toxoplasmosis-+Peter

=Toxoplasmosis =

Pathology:
====When a man eats the toxoplasma oocyst (Parasite eggs) from eating raw meat or licking your hand after handling cat litter, the trophozoite (Larvae) will hatch in the intestine. It will pass through the intestinal wall and go into the blood and carry the protozoa to the brain, muscles, liver, lymph node or the eye. ====

====1. For a healthy person, the infection will usually be mild. The symptoms are mild fever, headache from trophozoite going to the brain, muscle ache, rash and lymphadenopathy.(Which is the infection of the lymph node) ====

====2. Severe problem for immuno-compromised people such as AIDS, cancer patient receive chemotherapy and organ-transplant patient that received immuno-supprersive treatment because there their immunity responses are weak. They may have severe organ infection such as Heart-Myocarditis, Brain-Encephalomeningitis, Eye-Choroid Retinitis and Liver-Hepatitis. ====

====damage to the eye (Choroid Retinitis), Liver (Hepatitis), Lung (pneumonitis) and heart (Myocarditis). Abortion at stillbirth (in the womb) may also happen. ====

6. Pregnant women should avoid playing with a cat or handling cat litter.
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BIbliography
Neugebauer, J. (1983). Atlas of infectious diseases. Switzerland

Toxplasmosis. (2010). Wikipedia. Retrieved (2010, August 26) from http://www.wikipedia.org/

Jones, Clayton. (2000). Fundamentals of microbiology. USA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers International.