[Prospective study on prognosis of infants with neonatal subependymal cysts].

Objectives: It is confirmed that most neonatal subependymal cysts (SEC) are closely correlated with intrauterine infection and the short-term prognosis of SEC is not very good. Little information about the long-term prognosis of SEC is available. The purpose of the present study was to explore the short-term and long-term prognosis of neonatal SEC cases via a 6-year follow up.

[Effect of toxoplasma infection during pregnancy to the development of fetus and infant].

Objective: To investigate the effect of Toxoplasma (Tox) infection during pregnancy to the development of fetus and infant.

Methods: Enzyme linked immunoadsorbent assay (ELISA) was employed to detect Tox-IgM in peripheral blood of 3,908 pregnant women. To Tox-IgM positive cases, the umbilical blood of their neonates were sampled to detect Tox-IgM and abortion tissues were sampled to detect Tox-DNA with polymerase chain reaction.