Neurological and neuropsychiatric consequences of chronic Toxoplasma infection

Abstract

The neurotropic pathogen Toxoplasma gondii infects about one third of human population. For a long time, it is well known that both acute and latent (life-long) forms of toxoplasmosis are associated with specific neurologic and neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Here, the possible effects of latent toxoplasmosis on neurological and psychiatric disorders are surveyed and some general methodological problems of corresponding studies are discussed.

Keywords

• Toxoplasmosis
• cohort studies
• ecological studies
• neuropsychiatric diseases neurological disorders
• parasite infection