The disease burden of congenital toxoplasmosis in Denmark, 2014.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Congenital toxoplasmosis (CT) causes a substantial disease burden worldwide. The aim of this study was to estimate the disease burden of CT in Denmark, a developed country with free public healthcare and nationwide data available.

Methods

Using data primarily from two public health surveillance programmes conducted between 1992 and 2007, we estimated the incidence, occurrence of sequelae, mortality and the burden of disease in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) of CT in Denmark in 2014.

Findings

We estimated that 14 children were born with CT in 2014, of which six will have developed sequelae by the age of 12. CT resulted in a total disease burden of 123 DALYs (95% uncertainty interval [UI], 100-148), of which 78 (95% UI, 64-94) were due to foe

SUBMITTER: Nissen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5448755 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature