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Volume 6, Issue 3 (Suppl)
J Neonatal Biol, an open access journal
ISSN:2167-0897
Neonatology 2017
December 04-06, 2017
December 04-06, 2017 | Madrid, Spain
20
th
International Conference on
NEONATOLOGY AND PERINATOLOGY
Congenital toxoplasmosis: Implementation of a surveillance system in France
Pr I Villena
University Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
T
he national prevention programme for congenital toxoplasmosis in France has been in place since 1978; however, no data
is available concerning the annual number of cases. In order to estimate the perinatal burden of this infection, and to follow
the impact of the national prevention programme, a surveillance system was implemented in 2007 by the National Reference
Centre on Toxoplasmosis with support of Santé Publique France. We recommended a laboratory- based surveillance system as
being the most adapted for the surveillance of this infection. Several surveys were undertaken, in order to define the network of
contributors, and optimize the exhaustively of the surveillance. The surveillance system put in place, named ToxoSurv, is based
on a network of laboratories specialized in prenatal and postnatal diagnosis and medical biology laboratories that occasionally
perform a confirmatory diagnosis of this infection during the neonatal and postnatal periods. Cases are declared to the National
Reference Centre for Toxoplasmosis via the Internet or by the sending of a paper form. The data produced by this surveillance
will be used to produce an annual report destined for concerned health professionals. The surveillance system for congenital
toxoplasmosis has been active since June 2007 and provided valid prevalence data for congenital toxoplasmosis in France. The
number of congenital toxoplasmosis appears to be stable in France since 10 years with few cases of severe toxoplasmosis and
high proportion of subclinical forms. We also present French studies for treatment of congenital toxoplasmosis in antenatal
and neonatal period.
ivillena@chu-reims.frJ Neonatal Biol 2017, 6:3(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-0897-C1-006