Treatment should be given to patients with symptomatic advanced disease.
In Latin America, an estimated 75 million persons live in endemic areas and 400,000 people have symptomatic disease.
In the 40% of patients who have symptomatic disease, there are protean manifestations.
Indications for treatment of T. gondii during pregnancy should be based on confirmed or suspected symptomatic disease in the mother.
These linkages may be coincidental with how symptomatic disease is selected from a largely assymptomatic population.
The researchers suggested the low specificity may be explained by developing but not yet symptomatic disease in controls.
When viruses cause harm by infecting the cells in the body, a symptomatic disease may develop.
This can include individuals with pre-symptomatic or unrecognised symptomatic disease.
When enteropathy develops in early childhood symptomatic disease is more rapidly evident.
Mild cognitive impairment in symptomatic and asymptomatic cerebrovascular disease.