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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii among pregnant women in Baghdad province | ||
| journal of kerbala university | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-11 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of Toxoplasmosis among pregnant women, in Baghdad province. A total of 56 sera samples from pregnant women, their age ranged between 20 – 39 years, were obtained and tested. The results exhibit high prevalence with Toxoplasma parasite among pregnant women that reach 75%(1256) and also high rate of infection with increasing age, it was 64.3% in women ranged 20-26 years old, while it was raised to reach 87.5% in those ranged 33-39 years old. Among the environmental and individual factors that was studied, It was found that absence of educational level, exposure to cats and previous abortion have a great important in the increasing of infection among pregnant women, while there was no any important statistical relationship between rate of infection and any other environmental and individual factors which have been studied. . | ||
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