Toxoplasmosis

The toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease that affects the felines, is a unicellular parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, with ample world-wide distribution. Its importance is in the quite ample rank of species that can infect including a almost all the animals of hot blood. The man is affected in secondary form (intermediary guest) noncontagious. The human infection exceptionally causes significant disease, except in case of noticeable inmunodepresión or the prenatal states. Esteem that 60% of the world-wide population have positive titles to the Toxoplasma.

In the cat the only form to contract the disease is ingesting crude meat or by means of the predación in the hunting of mice, lauchas, birds, etc. Although it is certain that the felines are their natural reservorios, to control to the cat by ?dangerous? is an idea limited or parcializada on the subject, since the humans infect themselves by many other routes.

The mechanism of I infect does not happen through the direct bonding of a human being with its cat but with the fecal matter that contains ?cysts? (ooquistes) and have remained during 5 days in appropriate conditions so that ?they mature? (esporulación).

All pregnant woman must find out if she has protective antibodies. If the result is negative, it will have to be controlled periodically and to avoid the sources of I infect (washed vegetables badly, meats badly cooked and contact with fecal matter of cat of several days).

The felines, only producers of ooquistes, are crucial in the diffusion of the T. gondii, but the environmental contamination would be the important factor, because the studies did not demonstrate an association between having or touching to a cat and a greater risk of toxoplasmosis.

Certain hygienic measures reduce the risk of human transmission enormously:

1. - To avoid that the cat obtains prey (birds, mice, etc.) or ingests crude meat.

2. - The meat Cooks until in center obtaining a temperature of the same one between 82 to 85 degrees Celsius.

3. - Cleaning of the bath of the animal by a nonpregnant person and disinfection of the sanitary tray (measured standard of 50 cm x 30 cm) with hot water, adding a measurement to him of two soperas spoonfuls of lavandina and to let it act during fifteen minutes, later, rinsing with abundant water.

4. - Use of gloves when gardening tasks are made in a potentially contaminated ground.

5. - Washing of hands, implementos and surfaces after manipulating crude meat.

6. - To avoid that the children play in sandboxes.

7. - To avoid to take water nontreated

8. - To control the insects like the cockroaches because they scatter this disease.

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