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3-D Imaging and Analysis of Neurons Infected In Vivo with Toxoplasma gondii
Published on: December 9, 2014
[Prevalence of latent toxoplasma infection in HIV infection patients]
A Boto de los Bueis1, D Vega Alemán, J Gálvez Acebal
1Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez, Huelva.
Background:
To know the prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii latent infection in HIV-1 infected patients and to compare it with the prevalence in a group of parenteral drug users, non-infected by HIV.
Methods:
We study 255 HIV-1 patients revised in our hospital in the last 6 years. The control group were 116 drug addicts non-infected by HIV followed in an educational program of deshabituation. We tested IgG anti-toxoplasma by enzymatic inmunoessay (MEIA). An IgG plasma value of 6UI/ML or more was an indicative of toxoplasma previous infection. We used Chi Square and Yatchts correction tests for the statistical analysis, settling down a significance point of 95%.
Results:
We founded 36.7% positive IgG anti-toxoplasma in the group on HIV-1 infected patients, non drugs addicts, against 30.9% in the group of HIV-1 drug addicts patients. (OR 0.77; 0.35 < OR < 1.66). The control group showed a Toxoplasma seroprevalence of 26.7%, without statistically significant against the drug addicts HIV group (OR = 1.55; 0.93 < OREGON < 2.59).
Conclusions:
The seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii latent infection in our study was similar to the european results. We didn't found a higher prevalence in HIV-1 patients than in patients non infected by HIV-1.
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