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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease toxoplasmosis
Symptom C0021079|immunosuppression
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PubMedID- 23225875 Latent toxoplasmosis is associated with immunosuppression, which might explain the increased probability of giving birth to a boy in toxoplasma-infected women and also the extremely high prevalence of toxoplasmosis in mothers of children with down syndrome.
PubMedID- 23133466 Suggested the immunosuppression effects of latent toxoplasmosis may increase sex ratio in mice and human.
PubMedID- 23442946 mentioned that it is difficult to associate the high seroprevalence in pregnant women with immunosuppression as reactivation of latent toxoplasmosis is rare at least in immunocompetent mothers.

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