Seroprevalence of Toxoplasmosis in Pregnant Women in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Abstract

immunocompetent individual; however, severe forms are observed in the immunocompromised and in pregnant women, in particular for the fetus, because of the serious central neurological lesions which it causes, and because of the death in utero which it can cause [6, 7]. Toxoplasmic infection, asymptomatic in the majority of cases, is all the more serious since maternal primary infection occurs early in pregnancy and there is an associated placental pathology [8-11].The disease has a complex epidemiology which makes it difficult to estimate prevalence [12, 13].