Prevalence of congenital Toxoplasma gondii infection among newborns from the Poznań region of Poland: validation of a new combined enzyme immunoassay for Toxoplasma gondii-specific immunoglobulin A and immunoglobulin M antibodies

Journal of Clinical Microbiology
M PaulJ Szczapa

Abstract

We determined the value of a new serological assay detecting Toxoplasma-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgA antibodies at birth for use in mass neonatal screening. The incidence of congenital infection in newborns was compared with data from an epidemiological investigation on the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma in the studied population. Peripheral blood was collected on Guthrie cards during the first 3 days of life and tested for anti-Toxoplasma IgA and IgM using a noncommercial immunocapture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). When the screening assay was positive, serum samples from the child and the mother were collected for use in Western blotting comparative immunological profile analysis and traditional serological tests for determination of specific IgG, IgM, and IgA antibodies. From December 1998 to April 2000, 17,653 filter paper samples from live-born neonates were successively screened. Congenital T. gondii infection was finally confirmed in 19 newborns. In traditional assays, 13 of 19 infants were IgM and IgA positive using filter paper eluates at birth, 1 child was positive only for IgM, 1 patient was positive for IgM and borderline for IgA, 1 had an equivocal level of IgA, and 3 cases were confirmed only...Continue Reading

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