Elisa and pcr indiagnosis of toxoplasma gondiiin benha university hospitals

Generally speaking, congenital Toxoplasma gondii infection can lead toabortion or severe congenital disease in the newborn infant. The early di-agnosis of the mother or her baby particularly in pregnant women andnewborn babies pave the way to treatment and thus can minimize thecomplications. In this study, the PCR and IgM-ELISA were used to diag-nose active toxoplasmosis. The results revealed that PCR detected veryrecently infection [23/70 subjects] than IgM-ELISA [18/70 ones]. Howev-er, the use of both IgM-ELISA and PCR together improved the diagnosticsensitivity and specificity