Prevalence of toxoplasmosis among pregnant women in Najaf city

Ali Salih, Huda

	Prevalence of toxoplasmosis among pregnant women in Najaf city
Kufa Journal For Veterinary Medical Sciences
Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-108
Author
Huda Ali Salih
Abstract
Abstract: Toxoplasma gondii is globally distributed pathogen for human cause significant morbidity and mortality in developing fetus , in pregnant women toxoplasmosis is an important cause of abortions and stillbirth after primary infection . Therefore , the diagnosis of this infection is essential to prevent complications . This study was performed in order to evaluate the prevalence of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women and to study some factors that influence toxoplasmosis transmission . Among 260 sera samples tested using enzyme Linked immunosorbent assay(Elisa) . The seroprevalence of IgG which refer to chronic infection of Toxoplasma was (30.76 % )(80 out of 260 ) and IgM which refer to acute infection of Toxoplasma was (11.92%) (31 out of 260) . The present study demonstrated, that toxoplasmosis is more common among age group (25- 34 ) years ,and there is no statistically significant difference between of Toxoplasma infection and occupation of pregnant women , and there are significant role for the environmental and personal factors on Toxoplasma transmission , the study showed that the cats exposure woman were most affected by Toxoplasma ( 37. 5 %) and the pregnant women who not using disinfectant were more affected (42.51%) and the pregnant women who depending in their feeding on restaurant more frequent to infection with Toxoplasma (46.95%).

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