ArticleEpidemiology and infection2016
Salivary IgA against sporozoite-specific embryogenesis-related protein (TgERP) in the study of horizontally transmitted toxoplasmosis via T. gondii oocysts in endemic settings.
Article in Epidemiology and infection, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Development and optimization of an ELISA method to detect Toxoplasma gondii oocyst infection in cats.Parasitology research · 2025Article
- In silico study to explore the mechanism of Toxoplasma-induced inflammation and target therapy based on sero and salivary Toxoplasma.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Limited value of current and newFrontiers in parasitology · 2023Article
- Two small-molecule inhibitors ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Article
- Effects of Toxoplasma gondii infection on cognition, symptoms, and response to digital cognitive training in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2022Article
- Mining the Proteome ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- Identification of Oocyst-DrivenMicroorganisms · 2021Review
- Key Limitations and New Insights Into theFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2020Review
- Infectious Causation of Abnormal Host Behavior:Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- 2019 AAFP Feline Zoonoses Guidelines.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2019Article
- Environmental transmission ofFood and waterborne parasitology · 2019Review
- Rapid inactivation ofFood and waterborne parasitology · 2018Article
- The Survey of Saliva Compositional Alterations is a Non-invasive Method in Determining of Multiple Sclerosis Progression in Children.Iranian journal of child neurology · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to contribute to the better understanding of the relative epidemiological importance of different modes of infection with respect to horizontal transmission of Toxoplasma gondii in endemic settings. We investigated the prevalence of salivary IgA against a sporozoite-specific embryogenesis-related protein (TgERP) in a highly endemic area for toxoplasmosis in Brazil in order to pinpoint parasite transmission via oocysts. Prevalence calculated by salivary IgA specific to TgERP was compared to the prevalence calculated by serum IgG against both TgERP and tachyzoites (in conventional serological tests). Prevalence calculated by different serological and salivary parameters varied in the studied age groups. However, for the 15-21 years age group, values for T. gondii prevalence estimated by conventional serological tests and by anti-TgERP salivary IgA were similar; i.e. 68·7% and 66·6% or 66·7%, respectively, using two different cut-off parameters for salivary IgA anti-TgERP. Furthermore, salivary IgA anti-TgERP for this age group presented the highest specificity (93·33%), sensitivity (93·94%), and likelihood (14·09) compared to all the other age groups. These data demonstrate the importance of age for salivary IgA investigation against TgERP to estimate the mode of T. gondii transmission in endemic settings.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.