ArticleZoonoses and public health2019
Toxoplasma gondii in edible fishes captured in the Mediterranean basin.
Article in Zoonoses and public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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
28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Marine Animal Species, as a Potential Source of Food Contamination: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Acta parasitologica · 2022Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Parasitic diseases of marine fishes and their impact on human health: focus on the Egyptian biosphere: A review.Veterinary research communications · 2026Review
- Molecular detection of Toxoplasma gondii in marine fish from Tunisia: First report in the Southern Mediterranean Sea.Parasitology research · 2026Article
- Developing an Integrated Medical-Veterinary Data Framework for Investigating Human Toxoplasmosis: A One Health Perspective.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Genotypic and neuropathological characterization ofFrontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- How much do we know about the parasites of great white sharks (International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025Review
- Isolation and molecular characterization of Toxoplasma gondii from naturally infected seabirds on the southern coast of Santa Catarina state, Brazil.Parasitology research · 2025Article
- Review of Toxoplasmosis: What We Still Need to Do.Veterinary sciences · 2025Review
- Zoonotic Agents in Farmed Fish: A Systematic Review from the Interdisciplinary Perspective of the One Health Concept.Veterinary sciences · 2025Review
- Employing digital PCR for enhanced detection of perinatal Toxoplasma gondii infection: A cross-sectional surveillance and maternal-infant outcomes study in El Salvador.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Use of stable isotopes to reveal trophic relationships and transmission of a food-borne pathogen.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Molecular detection of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in seabirds collected along the coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil.Revista brasileira de parasitologia veterinaria = Brazilian journal of veterinary parasitology : Orgao Oficial do Colegio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria · 2024Article
- Microsporidia in Commercially Harvested Marine Fish: A Potential Health Risk for Consumers.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Quantitative Risk Assessment of Oocyst Versus Bradyzoite Foodborne Transmission ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Tsunami-Driven Spread ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Galapagos birds: Inference of risk factors associated with diet.PloS one · 2023Article
- First application of a droplet digital PCR to detectFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Review
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
11 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The issue of whether market fish can be involved in the transmission of Toxoplasma gondii in the marine environment is highly debated since toxoplasmosis has been diagnosed frequently in cetaceans stranded along the Mediterranean coastlines in recent times. To support the hypothesis that fishes can harbour and effectively transmit the parasite to top-of-the-food-chain marine organisms and to human consumers of fishery products, a total of 1,293 fishes from 17 species obtained from wholesale and local fish markets were examined for T. gondii DNA. Real-time PCR was performed in samples obtained by separately pooling intestines, gills and skin/muscles collected from each fish species. Thirty-two out of 147 pooled samples from 12 different fish species were found contaminated with T. gondii DNA that was detected in 16 samples of skin/muscle and in 11 samples of both intestine and gills. Quantitative analysis of amplified DNA performed by both real-time PCR and digital PCR (dPCR) confirmed that positive fish samples were contaminated with Toxoplasma genomic DNA to an extent of 6.10 × 10
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.