SynthesisThe Onderstepoort journal of veterinary research2015
Cats and Toxoplasma gondii: A systematic review and meta-analysis in Iran.
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- A Meta-Analysis of the Prevalence of Toxoplasmosis in Livestock and Poultry Worldwide.EcoHealth · 2022Pooled it
- Review of Toxoplasmosis: What We Still Need to Do.Veterinary sciences · 2025Review
- Development and optimization of an ELISA method to detect Toxoplasma gondii oocyst infection in cats.Parasitology research · 2025Article
- Prevalent Infectious Causes of Abortion in the Ruminant Population in Iran- A Literature Review.Archives of Razi Institute · 2025Review
- Prevalence of selected infectious agents in Swedish cats with fever and/or anemia compared to cats without fever and/or anemia and to stable/stray cats.Acta veterinaria Scandinavica · 2025Article
- Evaluation of anti-Toxoplasma effects of solid lipid nanoparticles carrying Cinnamon zeylanicum and Moringa oleifera oil extracts.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2024Article
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- Effect of B7-H4 downregulation induced by Toxoplasma gondii infection on dysfunction of decidual macrophages contributes to adverse pregnancy outcomes.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- Epidemiology of Toxoplasmosis among the Pakistani Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Epigenetic Manipulation of Psychiatric Behavioral Disorders Induced byFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Review
- Molecular detection ofVeterinary world · 2021Article
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- In-depth computational analysis of calcium-dependent protein kinase 3 ofClinical and experimental vaccine research · 2020Article
- Risk factors associated toJournal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2020Article
- Prevalence and genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii in stray cats in Mashhad area, Iran.BMC veterinary research · 2019Article
- A serological and parasitological study ofVeterinary research forum : an international quarterly journal · 2019Article
- A multi-event capture-recapture analysis of Toxoplasma gondii seroconversion dynamics in farm cats.Parasites & vectors · 2018Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Toxoplasma gondii is a cosmopolitan zoonotic intracellular coccidian of the phylum Apicomplexa infecting warm-blooded animals and human beings. This protozoan causes a significant public health problem in humans and imposes considerable economic losses and damages to husbandry industries. The final host, cats, accounts for all of these significant burdens. Hence the present study was designed to analyse and review the overall prevalence rate of T. gondii infection in cats in Iran for the first time. In the present study data collection (published and unpublished papers, abstracts of proceedings of national parasitology congresses and dissertations) was systematically undertaken on electronic databases including PubMed, Google Scholar, Ebsco, Science Direct, Scopus, Magiran, Irandoc, IranMedex and Scientific Information Database. A total of 21 studies from 1975 to 2013 reporting prevalence of Toxoplasma infection in cats from different areas in Iran met the eligibility criteria. The pooled proportion of toxoplasmosis using the random-effect model amongst cats was estimated at 33.6% (95% confidence interval [CI] 22.05-46.41). The prevalence rate of cat toxoplasmosis in various regions of Iran ranged from 1.2% to 89.2%. Firstly, this study establishes a crude prevalence rate of T. gondii infection in cats. Secondly, it discusses the role of significant risk factors including sex, age and being either household or stray cats, in the epidemiology of the disease. Furthermore, the current study determines gaps and drawbacks in the prior studies that are useful to keep in mind to assist in designing more accurate investigations in future.
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