Objective Objective: Toxoplasma gondii is one of the major causes of abortion in pregnant women. Most cases of abortion occur in the acute phase of infection and early pregnancy. In this study, the seroprevalence of anti-Toxoplasma gondii IgM and IgG antibodies was investigated in women with first spontaneous abortion. Also to determine the acute and chronic infections, all IgM and IgG positive...

The toxoplasma serological status of 50 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was compared with that of 50 healthy controls; high titres of toxoplasma antibody were significantly more common in the patients with SLE. These titres did not correlate with any of the routinely measured indices in SLE nor with the patients' prior treatment. A case history is used to illustrate the difficu...

introduction:torch infections causing via toxoplasma gondii, other microorganisms (e.g., treponema pallidum), rubella virus, cytomegalovirus (cmv) and the herpes simplex virus (hsv) types 1 and 2 during the first trimester of pregnancy can lead to severe fetal anomalies or even fetal loss. the current study determined the serological data of torch infections in women who were in their first tri...

By means of the indirect haemagglutination test (IHAT), blood serum antibody titres against Toxoplasma gondii were analyzed in 380 sheep and 364 goats originating from 10 settlements in the Stara Zagora region, Bulgaria. Positive samples (titres > 1:80) were investigated one more time after treatment with 2-mercaptoethanol to detect IgM antibodies. In sheep, 183 samples (48.2 %) were positive, ...

A simple hemagglutination inhibition (HI) test for the serological diagnosis of toxoplasmosis has been developed and evaluated. A total of 84 human and 120 mouse serum samples were tested by the newly developed HI test and compared with an immunoglobulin G-indirect fluorescent antibody test. Statistical analysis of serum titers obtained by using the HI test and the immunoglobulin G-indirect flu...

Introduction: Patients with cancer and hemodialysis are prone to opportunistic infections. The present research aims to examine the frequency of Toxoplasmosis and intestinal parasites in these patients. Methods: In the present cross-sectional study, seventy stool and blood samples from immunocompromised patients (46 hemodialysis and 24 cancer patients) from Guilan Province were collected in 20...

background: toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular protozoan parasite that infects human and animals. toxoplasma parasites are isolated from different parts of ani-mals even from semen but there are little information about the effect of toxo-plasmosis on fertility in animals and humans. in present study, the effect of chronic toxoplasmosis on serum levels of testosterone in men was studied. met...

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...

In the present work we demonstrate the implication of excreted-secreted antigens in eliciting the protective cell-mediated immunity developed by rats toward Toxoplasma gondii. We first showed that 10(4) specific T cells from T. gondii-infected rats conferred to nude rats the ability to resist an infection by the highly virulent RH strain of T. gondii. In a second series of experiments, the role...

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...