Toxoplasmosis

Abstract

HUMAN toxoplasmosis is a disease of increasing importance. In this paper we shall review it briefly, report two new cases, suggest a classification of toxoplasmosis and present new data concerning the nature and transmission of the congenital form of the disease.It has been known for almost half a century that toxoplasma is pathogenic. This was first demonstrated in mice by Nicolle and Manceaux,1 and since 1909 the organism has been found in warm-blooded creatures on all continents except the Antarctic. In 1923 Jankû2 gave the first description of human infection, in an eye from a hydrocephalic infant. Wolf, Cowen . . .