[Epidemiological findings of Toxoplasma gondii infections of humans in the area of Cottbus].

Abstract

Using the indirect fluorescence antibody test (IFAT) results concerning the infection of people by Toxoplasma in dependence on age, sex, settlement area and consumption of raw meat in the region of (State Brandenburg) Cottbus are represented as well as on frequency of primoinfections during pregnancy. Infections by Toxoplasma have been found out in 35.6 of 100 cases (n = 3665). With 39.2% women are infected more often than men with 27.1%. Probands of the urbane settlement area show with 37.9% (n = 3402) an higher degree of the infections than probands living in the country with 30.9% (n = 2656). Consumption of raw meat increases the risk of an infection significant. The frequency of primoinfections - found by prospective study with 22559 pregnant women - is placed by 6%, that of connatale infections by 2.6%.