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VII. SIGNIFICANCE OF OCULAR LESIONS IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF INFANTILE OR CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS

FERDINAND L. P. KOCH, M.D.; ST. PAUL; ABNER WOLF, M.D.; DAVID COWEN, M.D.; BERYL H. PAIGE, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1943;29(1):1-25.

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Human toxoplasmosis, a protozoan infection, was first encountered in infants as a severe disseminated encephalomyelitis,¹ after which it was observed in older children as a milder form of encephalitis² and in adults as a generalized infection with pulmonary involvement.³ The large reservoir of spontaneous toxoplasmic infection in rodents and in birds is the most likely source of the human infection ; however, no definite evidence of the mode of transmission from the lower animals to man is available.

The prominence and the regular occurrence of lesions in the eyes were stressed in previous papers of this series and in related publications in which the infantile form of the disease was first described.⁴ These lesions, together with the symptoms and signs of widespread involvement of the central nervous system, frequently including internal hydrocephalus, convulsions which appeared at birth or soon thereafter and cerebral calcification detected by roentgenographic methods, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Institute of Ophthalmology of the Presbyterian Hospital, the Neurological Institute of New York, the Babies Hospital and the Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology and Psychiatry of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Footnotes
This study was supported in part by funds from the William J. Matheson Foundation and by Child Neurology Research (the Friedsam Foundation, Inc.).

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