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Toxoplasmosis

Toxoplasmosis | Symptoms & Signs | Diagnosis & Tests | Prevention & Expectations | Treatment & Monitoring

What are the treatments for the infection?

Medications used to treat toxoplasmosis in an innumnosuppressed person include: pyrimethamine, sulfadiazine, and leucovorin. Spiramycin is used to treat a pregnant woman with toxoplasmosis.

What are the side effects of the treatments?

Serious problems are rare. Sometimes use of the drug results in abnormalities in blood cells and/or in a folic acid deficiency.

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Toxoplasmosis: Prevention & Expectations

Author: Danielle Zerr, MD
Reviewer: William M. Boggs, MD
Date Reviewed: 09/04/01

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