What is toxoplasmosis of the eye?

  Ocular toxoplasmosis is probably the most common infectious cause of most retinal vascular diseases. Ocular symptoms include granulomatous anterior uveitis, vitreous inflammation, and scattered lesions of chorioretinitis associated with retinal vasculitis . Although ocular disease has been reported as a result of primary infection, this disease mostly presents as a reactive result of congenital infection. This vasculitis with active disease may be peripheral arteritis or peripheral phlebitis. Frosty branch vasculitis has also been described in association with active ocular toxoplasmosis. Hormonal and antimicrobial drugs are often used in combination to avoid the occurrence of ocular inflammation caused by microbial death.