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SEROEPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY FOR TOXOPLASMOSIS IN KHALIS CITY POPULATION AND ITS VILLEGES / DIYALA PROVINCE . | ||
| Diyala Agricultural Sciences Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 6-12 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study aimed to determine the rate of infection by Toxoplasm agondii in AL- Khalis district Cross section khalis and to detect the effect of a certain factors such as age ,sex ,occupation , social class and contact with domestic cats. The study used Direct Agglutination Test (DAT) to detect Toxoplasma antibodies . So this study showed that the rate of infection by toxoplasmosis among tested population 45.6% for the examined blood samples . and there were significant relationship between anti-toxoplasma antibodies and age(P<0.05) , while there were no significant relationship between social class and the rate of seropositivity. Also this study showed a presence of percentage rate 0.5% for parturition malformated embryo as a result of transmission of infection from mother to embryo transplacenta . The higher rates of abortion due to toxoplasmosis was found to be in the first trimester of pregnant women whose who had previous abortion with percentage 30.5% , 13.3% respectively. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| toxoplasmosis; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGICAL | ||
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