Toxoplasmosis.
OBJECTIVE
A 28-year-old patient is 3 months pregnant with her first child. She has heard about toxoplasmosis from her friends and asks if it is safe to keep her cat. How should I reply?


CONCLUSIONS
Your patient does not have to give up her cat. She should be encouraged to take primary preventive measures. If toxoplasmosis serology is performed, a baseline should be done as early as possible with serial follow up in the second and third trimesters.
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Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic / Q000469:parasitology*; D002415:Cats / Q000469:parasitology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D015597:Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014125:Toxoplasmosis, Congenital / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission