BACKGROUND Toxoplasmosis is a life-threatening infection in organ transplant recipients, people receiving corticosteroid or radiation therapy, people with malignancies, and AIDS patients. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to determine the prevalence of toxoplasmosis in patients receiving chemotherapy for malignancies in the Bushehr province of southwest Iran. METHODS Blood samples were tak...

Knowledge about the influence of latent toxoplasmosis on development and general biological condition of children is scant and thus the aim of the present study was to investigate these aspects in some detail. We compare school children in rural area seropositive and seronegative to the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii (Nicolle et Manceaux, 1908) in terms of their developmental age, body...

Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic infection caused by Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan belonging to family Toxoplasmidae and Class Toxoplasmida(1). T. gondii was described by Nicolle and Manceaux(2) in a small North African rodent Ctenodactylus gondii. It has a world-wide distribution, but frequency of infection in man and animals varies from country to country. In general, the prevalence rate of infec...

Asymptomatic Toxoplasma infection of both man and animals is common in the Americas. This is shown by the high prevalence of Toxoplasma antibody, commonly found in 50-60% of human subjects 20-30 years old, in the absence of apparent clinical disease (I). Similarly, serologic surveys have found antibody in normal animals (2). Clinical illness also occurs, however, such as the illness that led to...

Toxoplasma gondii, the causal agent of toxoplasmosis, was first found in a North African rodent called gondi.1 It is an unusual parasite in that it is found in most parts of the world and it has little host specificity. It can infect any warm-blooded animal, including birds, and frequently does so. The prevalence of infection in man, as judged by antibody tests, varies from as low as 7% in Nava...

n Iranian Journal of Parasitology Vol. 9, No. 1, Jan -Mar 2014, a paper entitled " Anti-Toxoplasma gondii Antibody Levels in Blood Supply of Shiraz Blood Transfusion Institute, Iran " by Shaddel et al. was published and prevalence of toxoplasmosis was reported as 23.6% in blood products. In this regard, following notes should be considered. Blood transfusion is an important lifesaving medical i...

BACKGROUND Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic and usually asymptomatic infection. This study was carried out to investigate the seroepidemiology of Toxoplasma infection in women referred to Arak Marriage Consulting Center during 2012-2013. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, serum samples were collected from 400 women referred to Marriage Consulting Center in Arak City, Markazi Province, central ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency of antibody seropositivity of Toxoplasma gondii  infection in a cancer patient population. We also explored on association of Toxoplasma gondii seropositivity with selected variables. Methods: This is a prospective cross-sectional study conducted at  Prince Faisal bin Bandar cancer center, Qassim, Saudi Arabia, from November 2014 to  March 2015. One hundred...

Transmission of pathogens among animals is influenced by demographic, social, and environmental factors. Anthropogenic alteration of landscapes can impact patterns of disease dynamics in wildlife populations, increasing the potential for spillover and spread of emerging infectious diseases in wildlife, human, and domestic animal populations. We evaluated the effects of multiple ecological mecha...

BACKGROUND Toxoplasma gondii is a worldwide obligate intercellular parasite. Felids are its definitive host and warm-blooded animals including humans are its intermediate host. The aim of this seroepidemiological study was to investigate the frequency of human infection using ELISA method and related risk factors in Tabriz City, northwestern Iran. METHODS In this cross sectional study, 171 bl...