Volume 12, Number 9—September 2006
Letter
Perinatal Toxoplasmosis, Northern Taiwan
I-Jan Hu*†, Pau-Chung Chen‡, Feng-Chiao Su‡, Chia-Jung Hsieh‡, Suh-Fang Jeng†, Hua-Fang Liao†, Yi-Ning Su*†, Shio-Jean Lin§, and Wu-Shiun Hsieh*†
Table
Seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in mothers and their neonates, Taiwan, 2004–2005*
| Neonates | Mothers |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| IgG (+) | IgG (–) | ||
| IgG (+) | 43 | 2 | 45 |
| IgG (–) | 1 | 437 | 438 |
| Total |
44 |
439 |
483 |
| IgM (+) |
IgM (–) |
Total |
|
| IgM (+) | – | 1 | 1 |
| IgM (–) | 5 | 477 | 482 |
| Total | 5 | 478 | 483 |
*N = 483; Ig, immunoglobulin.
