Toxoplasmosis

SIXTY years have elapsed since Toxoplasma gondii was first recognized in Ctenodactylus gondi and in rabbits.1 , 2 Between these initial reports in 1908 and 1939,3 when it was demonstrated beyond question that toxoplasma infected man (in this instance fatal disease in newborn infants), relatively few publications dealt with this organism. In the main, they were descriptions based upon morphologic data of the occasional occurrence of what appeared to be toxoplasma in various animals and man. One such paper, a landmark, written by Janků4 in 1923, described organisms resembling toxoplasma in the fundi of an infant.The report by Wolf et al. . . .