Prevalence and predictors of Toxoplasma seropositivity in women with and at risk for human immunodeficiency virus infection

Oluwatoyin Falusi; Audrey L. French; Eric C. Seaberg; Phyllis C. Tien; D. Heather Watts; Howard Minkoff; Eva Piessens; Andrea Kovacs; Kathryn Anastos; Mardge H. Cohen

doi:10.1086/344462

Prevalence and predictors of Toxoplasma seropositivity in women with and at risk for human immunodeficiency virus infection

Oluwatoyin Falusi
, Audrey L. French
, Eric C. Seaberg
, Phyllis C. Tien
, D. Heather Watts
, Howard Minkoff
, Eva Piessens
, Andrea Kovacs
, Kathryn Anastos
, Mardge H. Cohen

Obstetrics / Gynecology

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Stroger Hospital of Cook County
Rush University
Johns Hopkins University
University of California at San Francisco
National Institutes of Health
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
University of Southern California
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center

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Abstract

We assessed the prevalence and predictors of latent Toxoplasma infection in a large group of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and HIV-uninfected at-risk US women. The prevalence of latent Toxoplasma infection was 15% (380 of 2525 persons) and did not differ by HIV infection status. HIV-infected women aged ≥ 50 years and those born outside of the United States were more likely to have latent Toxoplasma infection, with prevalences of 32% and 41%, respectively.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1414-1417
Number of pages	4
Journal	Clinical Infectious Diseases
Volume	35
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/344462
State	Published - Dec 1 2002

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