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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasmosis in the Residents of Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do, Korea
The seroepidemiological status of toxoplasmosis was surveyed among the residents of Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do by means of ELISA using a crude extract antigen of Toxoplasma gondii. The sera of 1,661 adult residents (866 males and 795 females) were collected and checked for IgG antibody titers, which s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3428568/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22949750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2012.50.3.225 |
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author | Ahn, Hye-Jin Cho, Pyo Yun Ahn, Seong Kyu Kim, Tong-Soo Chong, Chom-Kyu Hong, Sung-Jong Cha, Seok Ho Nam, Ho-Woo |
author_facet | Ahn, Hye-Jin Cho, Pyo Yun Ahn, Seong Kyu Kim, Tong-Soo Chong, Chom-Kyu Hong, Sung-Jong Cha, Seok Ho Nam, Ho-Woo |
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description | The seroepidemiological status of toxoplasmosis was surveyed among the residents of Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do by means of ELISA using a crude extract antigen of Toxoplasma gondii. The sera of 1,661 adult residents (866 males and 795 females) were collected and checked for IgG antibody titers, which showed 17.0% positive rate (282 sera). The positive rate was significantly different between the sex; 20.6% for males and 13.1% for females (P<0.05). The positive rates were higher in fifties of males (28.7%) and forties of females (20.0%). This positive rate of toxoplasmosis in Cheorwon-gun residents is regarded as the highest among the surveys of different geographical regions of Korea. This high positive rate may due in part to peculiar geographical locality of the surveyed area near the naturally well preserved demilitarized zone (DMZ) or presumably consumption of the pork imported from high endemic nations. Therefore, it is necessary to study further the epidemiology of toxoplasmosis in Cheorwon-gun. |
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spelling | pubmed-34285682012-09-05 Seroprevalence of Toxoplasmosis in the Residents of Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do, Korea Ahn, Hye-Jin Cho, Pyo Yun Ahn, Seong Kyu Kim, Tong-Soo Chong, Chom-Kyu Hong, Sung-Jong Cha, Seok Ho Nam, Ho-Woo Korean J Parasitol Brief Communication The seroepidemiological status of toxoplasmosis was surveyed among the residents of Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do by means of ELISA using a crude extract antigen of Toxoplasma gondii. The sera of 1,661 adult residents (866 males and 795 females) were collected and checked for IgG antibody titers, which showed 17.0% positive rate (282 sera). The positive rate was significantly different between the sex; 20.6% for males and 13.1% for females (P<0.05). The positive rates were higher in fifties of males (28.7%) and forties of females (20.0%). This positive rate of toxoplasmosis in Cheorwon-gun residents is regarded as the highest among the surveys of different geographical regions of Korea. This high positive rate may due in part to peculiar geographical locality of the surveyed area near the naturally well preserved demilitarized zone (DMZ) or presumably consumption of the pork imported from high endemic nations. Therefore, it is necessary to study further the epidemiology of toxoplasmosis in Cheorwon-gun. The Korean Society for Parasitology 2012-09 2012-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3428568/ /pubmed/22949750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2012.50.3.225 Text en © 2012, Korean Society for Parasitology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Brief Communication Ahn, Hye-Jin Cho, Pyo Yun Ahn, Seong Kyu Kim, Tong-Soo Chong, Chom-Kyu Hong, Sung-Jong Cha, Seok Ho Nam, Ho-Woo Seroprevalence of Toxoplasmosis in the Residents of Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do, Korea |
title | Seroprevalence of Toxoplasmosis in the Residents of Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do, Korea |
title_full | Seroprevalence of Toxoplasmosis in the Residents of Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do, Korea |
title_fullStr | Seroprevalence of Toxoplasmosis in the Residents of Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do, Korea |
title_full_unstemmed | Seroprevalence of Toxoplasmosis in the Residents of Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do, Korea |
title_short | Seroprevalence of Toxoplasmosis in the Residents of Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do, Korea |
title_sort | seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in the residents of cheorwon-gun, gangwon-do, korea |
topic | Brief Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3428568/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22949750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2012.50.3.225 |
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