[Toxoplasmosis among pregnant women in France : Seroprevalence, seroconversion and knowledge levels. Trends 1965-1995]

Med Mal Infect. 1996 Apr:26 Suppl 3:431-6. doi: 10.1016/s0399-077x(96)80188-0.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The main trends and the significant points concerning the evolution of seroprevalence, seroconversion's rate and knowledge's level of preventive measures against toxoplasmosis in pregnant women in France are : a progressive decrease of immunisation's ratio with regional variation (national mean is estimated at 54 % in 1995); diversity of factors having a potential influence on the contamination, the trends of most of them tend to decrease the contamination but the exact impact is difficult to appreciate; stability of seroconversion's rate since 15 years 4 to 5 p.1000 of the whole pregnancy for nine months exposition period; ways of contamination are still the same; few informations about knowledge's level concerning preventives measures and performances of educative action.

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