Title |
Seroepidemiology of Toxoplasma gondiiinfection in psychiatric inpatients in a northern Mexican city
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Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, December 2006
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-6-178 |
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Authors |
Cosme Alvarado-Esquivel, Olga-Patricia Alanis-Quiñones, Miguel-Ángel Arreola-Valenzuela, Alfredo Rodríguez-Briones, Luis-Jorge Piedra-Nevarez, Ehecatl Duran-Morales, Sergio Estrada-Martínez, Sergio-Arturo Martínez-García, Oliver Liesenfeld |
Abstract |
Patients with psychiatric disorders were found to show a high seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection. There is scarce information about the epidemiology of T. gondii infection in psychiatric patients in Mexico. Therefore, we sought to determine the prevalence of T. gondii infection and associated socio-demographic, clinical and behavioural characteristics in a population of psychiatric patients in Durango City, Mexico. Seroprevalence in patients was compared with that obtained in a control population. |
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Other | 12 | 15% |
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