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You are reviewing for your nursing school

entry exam with your study group. Each person in the group agrees to cover one

disease. You select toxoplasmosis for your presentation. Toxoplasmosis can

be a serious problem for those who are immunosuppressed, as well as for

fetuses. Even in healthy people, the immune system may not clear the organism,

resulting in a latent infection that can reactivate when

immunity declines.

Please select the FALSE statement

regarding toxoplasmosis.

People contract toxoplasmosis by ingesting

oocytes discharged in the feces of acutely infected cats or inadequately cooked

meat containing tissue cysts.

❌

Toxoplasmosis

is usually asymptomatic among healthy people, although some people develop sore

throat, fever, and enlarged lymph nodes and spleen.

❌

Toxoplasmosis

occurs in two main forms—tuberculoid and lepromatous—depending on the immune

status of the individual.

✅✨

Infection

of the fetus, especially during the first trimester, results in miscarriage,

stillbirth, or birth defects.

❌

Toxoplasmosis

may cause encephalitis, brain masses, and other nervous system problems in

immunodeficient people.

❌

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