[Toxoplasmosis among pregnant women in France : Seroprevalence, seroconversion and knowledge levels. Trends 1965-1995.].

The main trends and the significant points concerning the evolution of seroprevalence, seroconversion's rate and knowledge's level of preventive measures against toxoplasmosis in pregnant women in France are : a progressive decrease of immunisation's ratio with regional variation (national mean is estimated at 54 % in 1995); diversity of factors having a potential influence on the contamination, the trends of most of them tend to decrease the contamination but the exact impact is difficult to appreciate; stability of seroconversion's rate since 15 years 4 to 5 p.1000 of the whole pregnancy for nine months exposition period; ways of contamination are still the same; few informations about knowledge's level concerning preventives measures and performances of educative action.