You are reviewing for your nursing school entry exam with your study group. Each person in the group agrees to cover one disease. You select toxoplasmosis for your presentation. Toxoplasmosis can be a serious problem for those who are immunosuppressed, as well as for fetuses. Even in healthy people, the immune system may not clear the organism, resulting in a latent infection that can reactivate when immunity declines.
-Please select the False statement regarding toxoplasmosis.
A) People contract toxoplasmosis by ingesting oocytes discharged in the feces of acutely infected cats or inadequately cooked meat containing tissue cysts.
B) Toxoplasmosis is usually asymptomatic among healthy people, although some people develop sore throat, fever, and enlarged lymph nodes and spleen.
C) Toxoplasmosis occurs in two main forms-tuberculoid and lepromatous-depending on the immune status of the individual.
D) Infection of the fetus, especially during the first trimester, results in miscarriage, stillbirth, or birth defects.
E) Toxoplasmosis may cause encephalitis, brain masses, and other nervous system problems in immunodeficient people.

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Toxoplasmosis occurs in two forms-typical and atypical-based on the severity and distribution of the disease, not tuberculoid and lepromatous. The latter classification is used in leprosy, a completely different disease caused by a bacteria.

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