Investigation on Toxoplasma gondii infection in childbearing age and pregnant women in Langfang City, Hebei Province

Zhongguo xue xi chong bing fang zhi za zhi = Chinese journal of schistosomiasis control
Yang Wen-Li, Wang Ying

Abstract

To understand the status of Toxoplasma gondii (TOX) infection in childbearing age and pregnant women in Langfang City, Hebei Province. Totally 276 pregnant women and 462 childbearing age women were investigated to detect the levels of TOX antibodies with ELISA from March 2013 to June 2015. The positive rates of Tox-IgG and Tox-IgM were 11.59% (32/276) and 5.43% (15/276) respectively in the pregnant women, and the rates were 8.87% (41/462) and 0.87% (4/462) respectively in the childbearing age women, and the positive rate of Tox-IgM of the pregnant women was higher than that of the childbearing age women (χ2 =14.32, P<0.01). The positive rate of the right age pregnant women (≤35 years) was 10.09% (22/218), and that of the advanced age pregnant woman (>35 years) was 25.86% (15/58), and the difference was statistically significant (χ2 = 9.81, P<0.01). The positive rate of women close contacting with pet was 18.67% (14/75), and the rate of women not close contacting with pet was 10.26% (68/663), and there was a statistically significant difference between them (χ2 =4.82, P<0.05). The positive rates of Toxoplasma antibodies are high in childbearing age and pregnant women in Langfang City, Hebei Province, and most of them are silent ...Continue Reading

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