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Title: Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in HIV-infected patients and food animals and direct genotyping of T. gondii isolates, Southern Ghana
Authors: Pappoe, Faustina
Cheng, Weisheng
Wang, Lin
Li, Yuanling
Obiri-Yeboah, Dorcas
Nuvor, Samuel Victor
Ambachew, Henock
Hu, Xiaodong
Luo, Qingli
Chu, Deyong
Xu, Yuanhong
Shen, Jilong
Keywords: Toxoplasma
Human
Animals
HIV
Prevalence
Genotyping
Ghana
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: Parasitology Research
Abstract: Toxoplasma DNAs were detected in 3.07% of the seropositive participants and 9.47% of the animals. Six of the human DNA positive samples were partly typed at sag3: 33.33, 50, and 16.67% isolates had type I, II, and III alleles, respectively. All nine isolates from food animals typed at nine loci except apico were atypical: six isolates were identical to ToxoDB #41 and #145, and one was identical to TgCkBrRj2 all identified in Brazil. The genotype of two isolates has not been reported previously and was named as TgCtGh1. T. gondii seroprevalence is high among the HIV-infected individuals with T. gondii circulating in Ghana being genetically diverse.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9674
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