Toxoplamosis

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite infects most genera of warm-blooded animals, including humans, but the primary host is the felid (cat) family. Animals are infected by eating infected meat, byingestion of feces of a cat that has itself recently been infected, or by transmission from mother to fetus. Cats are the primary source of infection to human hosts, although contact with raw meat, especially pork, is a more significant source of human infections in some countries. Fecal contamination of hands is a significant risk factor.

Toxoplasma gondii tachy

taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis

Treatment

Treatment is often only recommended for people with serious health problems, such as HIV with CD4 count under 200, because the disease is most serious when one's immune system is weak. Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole is the drug of choice to prevent Toxoplasma, but is not the drug to treat.

Acute

Medications that are prescribed for acute toxoplasmosis are:

• Pyrimethamine — an antimalarial medication.
• Sulfadiazine — an antibiotic used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat toxoplasmosis.
  • Combination therapy is usually given with folinic acid supplements to reduce incidence of thrombocytopaenia. Combination therapy is most useful in the setting of HIV.
• clindamycin
• spiramycin — an antibiotic used most often for pregnant women to prevent the infection of their child.

(Other antibiotics such as minocycline have seen some use as a salvage therapy).

Latent

In people with latent toxoplasmosis, the cysts are immune to these treatments, as the antibiotics do not reach the bradyzoites in sufficient concentration.

Medications that are prescribed for latent toxoplasmosis are:

• atovaquone — an antibiotic that has been used to kill Toxoplasma cysts inside AIDS patients.^[26]
• clindamycin — an antibiotic which, in combination with atovaquone, seemed to optimally kill cysts in mice (this is where I am)

*Nota kaki : 
Cuma nak berkongsi tentang penyakit ni. Saya yakin ramai yang tak tahu sebab jarang ada dan pesakit tidak menunjukkan symptoms .Dalam keadaan tertentu, bila sampai masanya....baru tahu yang anda betul-betul SAKIT!!!