Congenital toxoplasmosis: bibliographic review

Abstract

The present study in its approach focuses on congenital toxoplasmosis given the epidemiological study, which refers to it being an infection by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which does not cause problems in healthy adults, but can cause serious illness in newborns. born and in people with weakened immune systems. Research problem: The aim is to address the research problem that elucidates the guiding question of what constitutes congenital toxoplasmosis? Justification: The study aims to describe congenital toxoplasmosis, a disease that occurs almost exclusively as a result of a primary maternal infection during pregnancy, where women infected in the late stages of pregnancy are responsible for the highest rates of transmission to the fetus. Objectives: The objective of this research is to investigate congenital toxoplasmosis, which is established in the epidemiological study. Method: methodology used included a bibliographic review, which is described in the research as a central point to demonstrate all knowledge on the topic, justifying its execution process that will conclude on the contents demonstrated and researched here. Discussion: It is considered that in order to achieve the proposed objectives, research was carried out focusing on acquiring knowledge about the subject, thus seeking to explain a problem, analyzing publications referring to a certain topic, where it is classified that toxoplasmosis is caused by a parasite that lives and multiplies in cats, the infection can cause death in some children and long-term neurological problems in others, so infection in the fetus is more serious if the fetus is infected early in pregnancy.