| fourteen-year seroepidemiological study of zoonoses in a greek village. | a seroepidemiological study carried out in a high-risk village in crete in 1985-1987 and 1998 showed that although the awareness of the people concerning zoonoses had increased during this period, the situation did not improve: there was a significant increase of the spread of seroprevalence in time and space of coxiella burnetii, rickettsia typhi, brucella sp., and entamoeba histolytica. toxoplasma gondii, rickettsia conorii, borrelia burgdorferi, echinococcus granulosus, leishmania sp., and fa ... | 2002 | 12135274 |
| toxoplasmosis in pregnant women in crete. | in greece there are no official recommendations concerning the management of pregnant women for the prevention of congenital toxoplasmosis. a protocol for monitoring pregnant women was designed in order to differentiate between acute and latent toxoplasmosis and was tested successfully for 7 years. the maternofetal transmission rate in crete was assessed and a map showing seroprevalence of pregnant women in all prefectures of greece was prepared. the high seroprevalence of toxoplasma gondii in g ... | 2007 | 18689233 |
| prevalent genotypes of toxoplasma gondii in pregnant women and patients from crete and cyprus. | molecular genotyping has been used to characterize toxoplasma gondii strains into the three clonal lineages known as types i, ii, and iii. to characterize t. gondii strains from greece and cyprus, polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis on the gra6 gene was performed directly on 20 clinical samples from 18 humans (11 pregnant women, six patients with lymphadenopathy, and one patient positive for human immunodeficiency virus) and two rats. characterization of t ... | 2008 | 18689625 |