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The association of latent toxoplasmosis and level of serum testosterone in humans

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, June 2018
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Title
The association of latent toxoplasmosis and level of serum testosterone in humans
Published in
BMC Research Notes, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13104-018-3468-5
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Authors

Nima Zouei, Saeedeh Shojaee, Mehdi Mohebali, Hossein Keshavarz

Abstract

Latent toxoplasmosis modifies various hormones and behaviors in infected hosts and possibly involves in etiology of different neurologic and psychiatric disorders. The aim of the current study was to assess possible associations between latent toxoplasmosis and testosterone concentration in Toxoplasma infected and free subjects. Briefly, 18-49 year-old participated in the study. After collected blood samples, sera were analyzed for the detection of anti-Toxoplasma IgG antibody. Totally, 76 positive sera were selected as study group (38 from men and 38 from women) and a same number of negative sera as control group. Comparison of testosterone concentrations and control groups showed that testosterone concentration in study group was higher than that in control group with statistically significant difference (P = 0.024 and P = 0.043 for men and women, respectively). Significant differences were found in testosterone concentrations and anti-Toxoplasma IgG antibody levels in study and control groups (P < 0.05). Toxoplasmosis can affect the mean concentration of serum testosterone in human. Alteration of testosterone during latent toxoplasmosis can result in alterations in behavioral, physiologic and immunological parameters in long time.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 24 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 13%
Professor 2 8%
Student > Bachelor 2 8%
Unspecified 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 11 46%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 3 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 8%
Unspecified 1 4%
Environmental Science 1 4%
Other 2 8%
Unknown 13 54%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 81. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 November 2023.
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#522,738
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#37
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#2
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