ArticleEpidemiology and infection2017
Predictors of Toxoplasma gondii infection in Czech and Slovak populations: the possible role of cat-related injuries and risky sexual behavior in the parasite transmission.
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- Toxoplasma gondii infection in domestic and wild felids as public health concerns: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2021Pooled it
- Associations of mental disorders and neurotropic parasitic diseases: a meta-analysis in developing and emerging countries.BMC public health · 2019Pooled it
- From Infection to Anxiety: A Sequential Model Linking Latent Toxoplasmosis to Psychological Distress via Health and Stress.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Beyond Latency: ChronicBiomedicines · 2025Review
- ChronicLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Anti-Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The importance of being heterozygote: effects of RHD-genotype-sex interaction on the physical and mental health of a non-clinical population.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Toxoplasmosis is a risk factor for acquiring SARS-CoV-2 infection and a severe course of COVID-19 in the Czech and Slovak population: a preregistered exploratory internet cross-sectional study.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Relationship between Latent Toxoplasmosis and Depression in Clients of a Center for Assisted Reproduction.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- New prevalence surveillance ofJournal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2019Article
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- Negative Effects of Latent Toxoplasmosis on Mental Health.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Le Petit Machiavellian Prince: Effects of Latent Toxoplasmosis on Political Beliefs and Values.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
The protozoan Toxoplasma gondii infects about one-third of the world's population. The consumption of raw meat, contact with cats, contact with soil, and ingestion of food or water contaminated with soil are considered to be the most important sources of infection. Still in most women who were infected during pregnancy, no definitive source of infection is found. In 2014-2016, independent sources of T. gondii infection were searched for by gathering epidemiological data from 1865 (519 infected) responders. Touching garden soil (odds ratio (OR) 3·14, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1·3-6·35), sustaining cat-related injuries (OR 2·16, 95% CI 1·25-3·74), and eating improperly washed root vegetables (OR 1·71, 95% CI 1·02-2·87), but not risky sexual behavior (OR 1·22, 95% CI 0·79-1·90), were the predictors of infection. The seroprevalence of T. gondii infection had been increasing up to ages 35-50 in men and ages 50-54 in women. Past those ages, seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis has been decreasing. This suggests that the natural decrease of anamnestic antibodies concentrations over time leads to positivity-to-negativity seroconversion in many subjects. If this is true, then the prevalence of T. gondii infection in a general population and its potential impacts on public health could be much larger than generally believed.
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