Toxoplasmosis

EpidemiologyThat toxoplasma infections occur almost throughout the world, but to different degrees in different places, has been well established. The illustrative personal data36, 54 55 56 summarized in Table 1 demonstrate very clearly the variable dye-test-positive rates to be expected in population studies. Similar information has been accumulated by others. Desmonts et al.47 found that 93 per cent of Parisian mothers who preferred undercooked or raw meat had dye-test antibodies, and at least 50 per cent of children less than seven years of age were reactors. These results are quite similar to those that we obtained in serums from Tahitians,54 whose cooking habits may . . .