Toxoplasmosis among the pregnant women attending a Saudi maternity hospital: Seroprevalence and possible risk factors

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 493-504

  Mohammad, H I Al ^a   Amin, T T ^a   Balaha, M H ^a   Moghannum, M S Al ^b  

^a KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Maternity and Children's Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTERVIEW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNITY WARD; MEAT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREGNANT WOMAN; RAW FOOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SAUDI ARABIA; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 77957300672     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485910X12786389891443     Document Type: Article

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