Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii among pregnant women in Almadinah Almunawwarah KSA

Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma Gondii Infection and Its Associated Risk Factors in Neuropsychiatric Patients in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia

“…Regional variations in the incidence of T. gondii infection rates from one country to another or even within the same country, has been well documented. In different areas in Saudia Arabia, there was a diversity between levels, it was lower than our study in some areas: 21.3% in Almadinah Almunawwarah (Immam et al, 2016), 22.4% in Riyadh (Ahmed, 1992), 24.1% in Jazan (Aqeely et al, 2014), 29.4% in Makkah Al-Mukkaramah (Al-Harthi et al, 2006, 32.3% in Najran were seropositive for toxoplasmosis by ELISA-IgG (El-Shahawy et al, 2014). On the contrary, some studies showed higher levels of seroprevalence than the current study: 42.1% in Dammam District (Abbas et al, 1986) and 52.1% in Asir Region (Al-Amari, 1994).…”

Comparison of Elisa and Rapid Immunochromatographic Tests in Diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

“…This finding is comparable with 29% and 27.1% which was reported in other related study [9]. In addition, a similar study carried out among patients in Cairo-Egypt, where agreement between both methods was found in 78.8% of [3] using the same techniques, 21.3% reported in Saudi Arabia [19]. However, lower seroprevalence of 15.3% and 12.3% has been reported [9,20].…”

Seroprevalence of low avidity anti-Toxoplasma IgG in pregnant women and its relationship with their age and contact with cats

“…However, a few studies have reported that the prevalence of T. gondii infection increases with age and the reason was thought to be increasing risk of exposure (Morris and Croxson 2004;Hung et al, 2007). In Windhoek, the seroprevalence of anti-T. gondii IgG among urban pregnant women who attended public antenatal care in 2016 was very low (2.61%) (Van der Colf et al, 2020) while in Almadinah Almunawwarah, it was found to be 21.3% (Imam et al, 2016). The seropositivity of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women with bad obstetric history was studied in a tertiary care hospital in Andhra Pradesh, India by ELISA and found that there is a gradual increase in the seroprevalence with advancing age (Sarkar et al, 2012).…”