Credible Serological Evidence of Latent Toxoplasma Infection Among Women with Primary Infertility: A Ten-Year Registry-Based Study

• Published in: Acta parasitologica Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 400 - 405
• Main Authors: Zamaniyan, Marzieh, Fakhar, Mahdi, Tabaripour, Rabeeh, Peivandi, Saloumeh, Keighobadi, Masoud, Ghasemi, Samira, Montazeri, Mahbobeh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.06.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Abortion; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Antibodies; Antibodies, Protozoan; Baseline studies; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Chronic infection; Contraceptives; Ecology; Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; Female; Hormones; Humans; Immunoglobulin G; Immunoglobulin M; In vitro fertilization; Infections; Infertility; Infertility, Female - epidemiology; Iran - epidemiology; Medical Microbiology; Medical science; Microbiology; Original Paper; Parasitology; Polycystic ovary syndrome; Population studies; Prolactin; Retrospective Studies; Seroepidemiologic Studies; Serology; Serum levels; Sorbents; Statistical analysis; Toxoplasma; Toxoplasmosis; Toxoplasmosis - complications; Toxoplasmosis - epidemiology; Iran; Iran; Latent toxoplasmosis; Primary infertility; Toxoplasma gondii

Background Some evidence reveled that chronic infection with Toxoplasma gondii ( T. gondii ) has recently been associated with infertility in human and experimental model . This baseline study aimed to investigate serological evidence of Toxoplasma infection among infertile women who admitted to the...