Publication: Toxoplasma Gondii antibody in pregnant women with and without HIV infection
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1998-06-01
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01251562
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Mahidol University
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Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Vol.29, No.2 (1998), 383-386
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T. Chintana, Y. Sukthana, B. Bunyakai, A. Lekkla Toxoplasma Gondii antibody in pregnant women with and without HIV infection. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Vol.29, No.2 (1998), 383-386. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/18526
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Toxoplasma Gondii antibody in pregnant women with and without HIV infection
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One thousand two hundred pregnant women were examined for Toxoplasma gondii antibody with the objective of identifying the prevalence and risk factors of the disease. By using Sabin-Feldman Dye test, the prevalence of IgG to Toxoplasma gondii was 13.2%. In this study 19 cases (1.6%) were anti-HIV seropositive. Between HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative pregnant women, antibody rates to T. gondii were 21.1% and 13.1% respectively, however, the statistical comparison could not be done due to the very few subjects in the former group (n=4). Concerning the risk factors, among those who had no cat in their house, the prevalence of T. gondii antibody were significantly different between under-cooked and properly-cooked meat consumers (19.5%; and 9.6%; odds ratio=2.28, 95% confidence interval). And when under-cooked meat consumers were excluded, the antibody to T.gondii between two groups (having and not - having cat in the house) were also found the significantly different (31.8% and 19.3 %; odd ratio=1.96, 95% confidence interval). In conclusion, consuming under-cooked meat and having a cat in the house, both are risk factors of transmission of toxoplasmosis. Further study with more subjects in HIV-infected pregnant women who had antibody to T. gondii, will be helpful for confirmation of the difference with respect to the non HIV-infected group.