title: [Gestational and congenital toxoplasmosis: a practical approach to disease notification].
abstract: to demonstrate the experience of implanting toxoplasmosis notification during pregnancy and congenital toxoplasmosis in a Sentinel Unit (SU) and describe reported cases.
  
  
  
  this was a descriptive study of the implantation of a notification protocol using a specific notification form for suspected cases of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women and congenital toxoplasmosis in a reference center in Paraná State, Brazil, from August 2013 to August 2014.
  
  
  
  all 64 suspected cases were notified and case investigation was completed by the SU Epidemiology Sector; 63 received prenatal care and 51 received treatment during pregnancy; 7 of the children being clinically monitored had confirmed diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis.
  
  
  
  implanting toxoplasmosis notification afforded epidemiological, clinical and diagnostic data on the disease that contributed to the assessment of the clinical evolution of children exposed to Toxoplasma gondii.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Departamento de Pediatria e Cirurgia Pediátrica, Londrina-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Jaqueline Dario
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Capobiango
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Departamento de Ciências Patológicas, Londrina-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Regina Mitsuka
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Breganó
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitário Filadélfia, Curso de Biomedicina, Londrina-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Fabiana Maria Ruiz Lopes
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva, Londrina-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Italmar Teodorico
authors.initials: IT
authors.lastname: Navarro
authors.affiliation: Hospital Universitário de Londrina, Núcleo Hospitalar de Epidemiologia, Londrina-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Josemari Sawczuk de Arruda
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.affiliation: Hospital Universitário de Londrina, Núcleo Hospitalar de Epidemiologia, Londrina-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Linda Tsuiko
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Tatakihara
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Faculdade de Medicina, Londrina-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Thalita Bento
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Talizin
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Faculdade de Medicina, Londrina-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Monica Dos
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Faculdade de Medicina, Londrina-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Tayná Rolim Galvão
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.affiliation: Secretaria Municipal de Saúde, Serviço de Vigilância Epidemiológica, Londrina-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Simone Garani
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Narciso
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Departamento de Patologia, Toxicologia e Análises Clínicas, Londrina-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Edna Maria Vissoci
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Reiche
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D018563:Disease Notification; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D015597:Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014125:Toxoplasmosis, Congenital / Q000453:epidemiology*; D055815:Young Adult