| epidemiology of toxoplasmosis in kuwait. ii. toxoplasma gondii in the desert rodent, meriones crassus. | | 1980 | 7210127 |
| epidemiology of toxoplasmosis in kuwait. i. detection of antibodies to toxoplasma gondii and percentage distribution among the inhabitants. | of 246 people living in kuwait and selected at random, 95.5% gave a positive reaction to the indirect haemagglutination test for antibodies to toxoplasma gondii, of whom approximately 34% had medium to high titres (1:128 to 1:4096). there was no obvious difference between the proportion of females and males who had been infected. approximately double the proportion of people in the age groups 20 to 31 and 32 to 43 years had medium to high titres compared with those in other age groups. even betw ... | 1980 | 7385301 |
| detection of acute toxoplasma gondii infection in early pregnancy by igg avidity and pcr analysis. | acute toxoplasma gondii infection in early pregnancy carries the risk of transmitting the infection to the fetus with serious sequelae. however, serological testing for igg/igm anti-toxoplasma antibodies may fail to differentiate between a recent and past infection. two hundred and twenty-four kuwaiti women in their first trimester were screened for igg/igm antibodies by the vitek immuno diagnostic assay system (vidas) and vidas igg-avidity tests. on serological screening, 119 (53.1 %) women wer ... | 2007 | 17965351 |
| enteric protozoan parasites in stray cats in kuwait with special references to toxoplasmosis and risk factors affecting its occurrence. | in kuwait, stray cats were surveyed for enteric protozoan infection using fecal examination and their sera were tested for toxoplasma gondii igg using indirect hemagglutination test (ihat) as well as for feline immunodeficiency virus (fiv) antibodies and feline leukaemia virus (felv) antibodies using elisa. out of 240 fecal samples examined 22 (9.2%) were found to be infected with oocysts of four species of coccidian protozoa. isopspora felis was the most predominant enteric protozoan parasite ( ... | 2013 | 24260809 |
| prevalence of anti-toxoplasma gondii antibodies in aborted ewes in kuwait. | serum samples from 528 aborted ewes from different sheep flocks in kuwait were tested for toxoplasma gondii. the indirect hemagglutination test (ihat) was used with a titer of 1:80 considered positive. antibodies to t. gondii were found in 94 (17.8%). the highest number of positive ewes (23; 24.5%) had a titer of 1:640. only one aborted ewe had a titer of 1:2560. this study is the first to report toxoplasma infection in sheep which may pose risk to humans who consume under cooked mutton. the det ... | 2014 | 25597154 |