Study the prevalence Toxoplasma gondii in aborted women by using  agglutination and ELISA method

Husain, A.B.

	Study the prevalence Toxoplasma gondii in aborted women by using agglutination and ELISA method
Tikrit Journal of Pure Science
Article 1, Volume 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-166
Author
A.B. Husain
Abstract
The current study was carried out to determine seroprevelance of Toxoplasma gondii infection among women subjected to abortion or threatened abortion aged 25 to 35 years in falluja city and around area.Two different serological tests were used for diagnosis (direct agglutination method) and ELISA technique for 90 blood samples of different area. the results show that the total infection rate was 18.88% by agglutination test and 13.33% by ELISA tech .The infection rate reach 21.05% in women aborted only one time by both methods (direct method and ELISA tech) and the rate of measured IgM was 1.23.The percentage of infection among the women aborted for 2 times was 22.22% and 11.11% by direct method and ELISA tech respectively where as the rate of measured IgM amount was 1.55 in positive cases . Women aborted for 3 times showed percentage of infection 33.33% where as measured IgM amount was 1.44 .The percentage of positive result in women have threatened abortion was 10.71% and 3.57 by direct method and ELISA tech. respectively. The percentage of infection by direct method was 13.79% and 21.31% in rural and urban area respectively and by ELISA method 10.34 and 14.75% in each of rural and urban area respectively and the rate of IgM amount reach 1.63, 1.24 in positive samples of each of rural and urban area respectively . The results showed the infection rate was higher in urban area than in rural area.

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