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REPORT OF OCULAR FINDINGS IN INFANT TWINS

PARKER HEATH, M.D.; WOLFGANG W. ZUELZER, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1945;33(3):184-191.

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Toxoplasmosis is a recently recognized infectious disease in human beings. Four principal types have been reported: (1) a granulomatous encephalitis, usually of congenital origin and occurring in fetal or early infantile life; (2) an acquired acute encephalitis occurring in children; (3) an acquired acute disease resembling Rocky Mountain spotted fever occurring in adults; (4) a latent subclinical form occurring in adults.

Sabin, in 1943,¹ outlined the status of Toxoplasma, which was isolated by Nicolle and Manceaux from the gondi North African rodent in 1908² and by Splendore from the rabbit in Brazil in the same year. The parasite has been classified as a protozoon of the genus Toxoplasma. It has a wide geographic distribution and occurs in many species of animals, both wild and domestic. Sabin and Olitsky in 1937³ found the parasite in guinea pigs and were able to transmit it through several animal passages. The . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DETROIT

From the Children's Hospital and the Department of Ophthalmology, Wayne University College of Medicine.

Footnotes
Read at the Eightieth Annual Meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society, Hot Springs, Va., May 30, 1944.

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