Toxoplasmosis : Complications
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Permanent disability, such as blindness or learning disorders, in infants with congenital toxoplasmosis; Return of the disease; Spread of infection in a person with a weakened immune system (can be deadly.
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The prognosis is poor when congenital toxoplasmosis is acquired during the first three months of pregnancy. Afflicted children die in infancy or suffer damage to their central nervous systems that can result in physical and mental retardation. Inf...
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The prognosis is poor when congenital toxoplasmosis is acquired during the first three months of pregnancy. Afflicted children die in infancy or suffer damage to their central nervous systems that can result in physical and mental retardation. Inf...
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Blindness is the lack of vision, or a loss of vision that cannot be corrected with glasses or contact lenses. Blindness may be partial, with very limited vision, or complete, with no perception of light. People with vision worse than 20/200, or a field of vision of less than 20 degrees in the better eye, are considered legally blind in most states in the U.S.
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Total blindness is the inability to tell light from dark, or the total inability to see. Visual impairment or low vision is a severe reduction in vision that can ' t be corrected with standard glasses or contact lenses and reduces a person ' s ability to function at certain or all tasks.
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Learning disorders (LD) refer to a significant deficit in learning due to a person ' s inability to interpret what is seen and heard, or to link information from different parts of the brain. Academic deficiency is frequently associated with neurologic and psychological disorders.
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Identifies possible learning disorders. The Meeting Street School Screening Test is an individually administered test that identifies possible learning disorders in kindergartners and first graders (ages 5-1-Vi).
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Learning disorders are academic difficulties experienced by children and adults of average to above-average intelligence . People with learning disorders have difficulty with reading, writing, mathematics, or a combination of the three.
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Learning disorders are academic difficulties experienced by children and adults of average to above-average intelligence. People with learning disorders have difficulty with reading, writing, mathematics, or a combination of the three.
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Learning disorders are academic difficulties experienced by children and adults of average to above-average intelligence. People with learning disorders have difficulty with reading, writing, mathematics, or a combination of the three.
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Toxoplasmosis is an infection with the protozoan intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii .
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