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ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2016

Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Chronic Liver Diseases: Evidence of an Association.

Nagwa Mostafa El-Sayed, Manar Ezzelarab Ramadan, Mohamed Ezzelarab Ramadan

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Article in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nagwa Mostafa El-SayedMedical Parasitology Department, Research Institute of Ophthalmology, Giza 12556, Egypt. nagelsaka@hotmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-6880-2147
Manar Ezzelarab RamadanParasitology Department, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo 11796, Egypt. manarezz98@yahoo.com.
Mohamed Ezzelarab RamadanDepartment of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Ahmed Maher Teaching Hospital, Cairo 11638, Egypt. ezzm3@yahoo.com.
Research Institute of Ophthalmology · EG

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Toxoplasmosis may present as a severe disease among some Egyptian patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) due to their impaired immune system, changing the course of the disease. The classical diagnosis of toxoplasmosis by serological tests is inadequate for such patients. This study was performed to highlight the role of real-time quantitative PCR (qrtPCR) test in the accurate diagnosis of toxoplasmosis among Egyptian patients with CLD. Seventy patients with CLD and 50 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. All were subjected to full clinical examinations, abdominal ultrasonography, and biochemical analysis of liver enzymes and they were investigated for markers of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV). In addition,

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chronic liver diseaseshepatitis B virus (HBV)hepatitis C virus (HCV)real-time PCRtoxoplasmosis

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