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Toxoplasmosis

Africa

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence among pregnant women in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Toxoplasmosis infection among pregnant women in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

Australia

• SA Health
  • Toxoplasmosis in Pregnancy

Austria

• EuroSurveillance
  • Prevalence and incidence of toxoplasmosis: a retrospective analysis of mother-child examinations, Styria, Austria, 1995 to 2012 [2016]

Austria, France, United States

• Food and Waterborne Parasitology
  • Prevention and mitigation of congenital toxoplasmosis. Economic costs and benefits in diverse settings [2019]

Brazil

• Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
  • Programs for control of congenital toxoplasmosis [2011]

Bulgaria

• Pathogens
  • The Prevalence of Toxoplasmosis in Bulgaria for the Period 2014-2023, with a Focus on Pregnant Women [2025]

Canada

• Government of Alberta
  • Alberta public health disease management guidelines : toxoplasmosis, congenital

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Toxoplasmosis in Pregnancy: Prevention, Screening, and Treatment [2018]

China

• Parasites and Vectors
  • Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans in China [2011]

Colombia

• Infectio
  • Clinical practice guideline. Integral Care Guidelines for the prevention, early detection and treatment of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium complications: Section on toxoplasmosis in pregnancy [2017]

• Parasites and Vectors
  • An overview of seventy years of research (1944-2014) on toxoplasmosis in Colombia, South America [2014]

Ethiopia

• Journal of Parasitology Research
  • Toxoplasmosis in Pregnant Women and HIV/AIDS Patients in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2019]

Europe

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
  • Congenital toxoplasmosis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2021 [2024]
  • Toxoplasmosis

• European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
  • Toxoplasma gondii-specific IgG avidity testing in pregnant women [2020]

• EuroSurveillance
  • Molecular detection of Toxoplasma gondii in ready-to-eat salad mixes: multi-country survey using a validated and harmonised standard operating procedure, Europe, 2021 to 2022 [2025]
  • Survey of European programmes for the epidemiological surveillance of congenital toxoplasmosis [2008]

France

• EuroSurveillance
  • National perinatal survey demonstrates a decreasing seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection among pregnant women in France, 1995 to 2016: impact for screening policy [2021]

• Pathogens
  • Maternal and Congenital Toxoplasmosis: Diagnosis and Treatment Recommendations of a French Multidisciplinary Working Group [2019]
  • Congenital Toxoplasmosis: A Plea for a Neglected Disease [2018]

• PLoS ONE
  • The cost-effectiveness of neonatal versus prenatal screening for congenital toxoplasmosis [2019]

Germany

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Estimates of Toxoplasmosis Incidence Based on Healthcare Claims Data, Germany, 2011–2016 [2021]

International

• Acta Informatica Medica
  • The Importance of Use of the On-line Databases as a Source for Systematic Review of Toxoplasmosis Screening During Pregnancy [2021]

• Advanced Biomedical Research
  • Toxoplasmosis Infection in Newborn: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2022]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Global seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]
  • Assessment of simultaneous IgM, IgG avidity, and IgA testing in diagnosis of acute toxoplasmosis in pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis study [2025]

• Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Global prevalence of latent toxoplasmosis in pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • Global initiative for congenital toxoplasmosis: an observational and international comparative clinical analysis [2018]

• Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Congenital Toxoplasmosis: The State of the Art [2022]

• Journal of Tropical Medicine
  • Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Congenital Toxoplasmosis Diagnosis: Advances and Challenges [2024]

• Pan African Medical Journal
  • Toxoplasma gondii infection in HIV-infected pregnant women: epidemiology and risks of mother-to-child transmission [2022]

• Pathogens
  • Long-Term Outcomes in Children with Congenital Toxoplasmosis-A Systematic Review [2022]

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • The global seroprevalence of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in women who had spontaneous abortion: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • Acute Toxoplasma infection in pregnant women worldwide: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]

• Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
  • Molecular and serological diagnosis of toxoplasmosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• Scientific Reports
  • Global, regional, and country seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in pregnant women: a systematic review, modelling and meta-analysis [2020]

• Trends in Parasitology
  • Is the incidence of congenital toxoplasmosis declining? [2023]

Iran

• Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine
  • Toxoplasmosis in Iran: A guide for general physicians working in the Iranian health network setting: A systematic review [2016]

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection among Iranian pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]

• Epidemiology and Health
  • Congenital toxoplasmosis among Iranian neonates: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]

Ireland

• Health Protection Surveillance Centre
  • Toxoplasmosis

Italy

• New Microbiologica
  • Multidisciplinary approach to congenital Toxoplasma infection: an Italian nationwide survey [2014]

Kyrgyzstan

• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Kyrgyzstan: Seroprevalence, Risk Factor Analysis, and Estimate of Congenital and AIDS-Related Toxoplasmosis [2013]

Mexico

• Parasites and Vectors
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of Toxoplasma gondii infection among the Mexican population [2012]

• Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
  • Toxoplasmosis in Mexico: epidemiological situation in humans and animals [2015]

Morocco

• Pan African Medical Journal
  • Review of toxoplasmosis in Morocco: seroprevalence and risk factors for toxoplasma infection among pregnant women and HIV- infected patients [2017]

Mozambique

• Parasites and Vectors
  • Human toxoplasmosis in Mozambique: gaps in knowledge and research opportunities [2020]

Netherlands

• PLoS ONE
  • A social cost-benefit analysis of two One Health interventions to prevent toxoplasmosis [2019]

New Zealand

• Starship
  • Toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma gondii)

Nigeria

• BMC Public Health
  • Human Toxoplasma gondii infection in Nigeria: a systematic review and meta-analysis of data published between 1960 and 2019 [2020]

Pakistan

• Pathogens
  • Epidemiology of Toxoplasmosis among the Pakistani Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]

Panama

• Pathogens
  • Epidemiological Aspects of Maternal and Congenital Toxoplasmosis in Panama [2021]

Poland

• Ginekologia Polska
  • Preventing congenital toxoplasmosis — implementation of clinical practice guidelines [2018]

• Przeglad Epidemiologiczny - Epidemiological Review
  • Recommended management of Toxoplasma gondii infection in pregnant women and their children [2015]

• Scientific Reports
  • Congenital toxoplasmosis among hospitalized infants in Poland in the years 2007-2021: study based on the national hospital registry [2023]

Portugal

• BMJ Open
  • Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in the Portuguese population: comparison of three cross-sectional studies spanning three decades [2016]

Serbia

• Microorganisms
  • Epidemiology of Toxoplasmosis in Serbia: A Cross-Sectional Study on Blood Donors [2022]

Spain

• Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
  • Prevalence of Human Toxoplasmosis in Spain Throughout the Three Last Decades (1993-2023): A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2024]

Sudan

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Toxoplasmosis landscape: a systematic review and meta-analysis of seroprevalence in healthy and non-healthy individuals in Sudan (1990-2025) [2025]

United Kingdom

• Archives of Disease in Childhood. Education and Practice Edition
  • Fifteen-minute consultation: Management of the infant born to a mother with toxoplasmosis in pregnancy [2020]

• Public Health England
  • Toxoplasmosis: diagnosis, epidemiology and prevention

• UK National Screening Committee
  • Toxoplasmosis

United States

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Congenital Toxoplasmosis in the United States [2017]

• Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Survey of obstetrician-gynecologists in the United States about toxoplasmosis: 2012 Update [2014]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Public Health Surveillance and Reporting for Human Toxoplasmosis — Six States, 2021 [2022]
  • Toxoplasmosis | CDC Yellow Book 2024
  • Toxoplasmosis

• StatPearls
  • Congenital Toxoplasmosis

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Toxoplasma gondii: background document for the WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality and the WHO guidelines on sanitation and health [2025]

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