The present study was conducted in Benjawad , Libya. It is the first study on the incidence of T.gondii among women from Benjawad region . Blood samples were collected from participants including 280 pregnant and 250 non-pregnant women . The samples (anti-Toxoplasma IgGandIgM antibodies)were tested by using ELISA Kits . Information and data on women were obtained using questionnaire . Overall i...

Detection of Toxoplasma gondii infection is essential in pregnant women and immunosuppressed patients. Numerous studies have shown that the recombinant production of several Toxoplasma antigens, including dense granule antigens (GRAs) has high potential as diagnostic reagents. In the present study, we produced GRA2 using Pichia pastoris system. RNA of T. gondii RH strain tachyzoite was used as ...

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...

BACKGROUND Conflicting data have been reported about the effect of Toxoplasma serostatus on mortality after heart transplantation. Either a positive or a negative recipient Toxoplasma serostatus was found to be associated with increased mortality. METHODS We evaluated the effects of T. gondii infection on survival of our 582 cardiac allograft recipients operated upon between June 1984 and Jul...

A survey was carried out to determine the prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii antibodies among cattle farmers and cattle in the Gombak District, Selangor. A total of 79 human and 73 cattle serum samples were tested for Toxoplasma gondii antibodies by the immunofluorescent technique (IFAT). Results of the survey showed that anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies were found in 27.8% of the farmers, while ...

background blood transfusion is one of the many ways, through which toxoplasma gondii (t. gondii), a protozoan parasite, can be transmitted to humans. objectives this cross sectional study aimed to evaluate the seroprevalence of toxoplasma infection and related epidemiological features among healthy blood donors. materials and methods a total of 375 blood samples from donors were tested for spe...

toxoplasmosis is a wide distributed opportunistic infection caused by toxoplasma gondii. this was a cross-sectional study of t. gondii antibody titer, which was conducted from june 2003 to august 2004 on renal transplant recipients in iran. a total of 551 serum samples were obtained from randomly selected population referred from different areas all over the country to shafa central clinic in t...

Toxoplasmosis is a serious opportunistic infection in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The lung is a major site of infection after the central nervous system. The aim of the study was to assess the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and cell culture for the detection of Toxoplasma gondii. One hundred and thirty two human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with r...

The ubiquitous apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii stimulates its host's immune response to achieve quiescent chronic infection. Central to this goal are host dendritic cells. The parasite exploits dendritic cells to disseminate through the body, produce pro-inflammatory cytokines, present its antigens to the immune system and yet at the same time subvert their signaling pathways in order t...