title: [Toxoplasmosis as anthropo-zoonosis and its immunodiagnostics in Lithuania].
abstract: Anti-Toxoplasma IgG antibodies were found in 43.2% of examined mothers, infants and children below 14 years of age, whereas IgM antibodies were found in 6.2% of the examined persons only. Diagnoses of acquired and congenital toxoplasmosis were based on the results of clinical examination and immunological confirmation. In infants, anti-Toxoplasma IgG antibodies are not indicative of Toxoplasma invasion, since they frequently come from mother and then disappear by the end of the first year of life, whereas finding of specific immunoglobulins M is the evidence of congenital toxoplasmosis.
authors.affiliation: NII Ochrany Materinstva i Detstva Minzdrava Litvy, Vilnius, Vytaute.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bajoriniene
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arlauskene
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Balkjawiczjus
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic / Q000032:analysis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007112:Immunity, Maternally-Acquired; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000032:analysis*; D007075:Immunoglobulin M / Q000032:analysis*; D007223:Infant; D011247:Pregnancy; D015597:Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic / Q000276:immunology; D012698:Serologic Tests; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology; D014125:Toxoplasmosis, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007075:Immunoglobulin M
vernacular_title: Toksoplazmoza jako antropozoonoza i jej immunodiagnostyka na Litwie.