Beyond the association. Toxoplasma gondii in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and addiction: systematic review and meta‐analysis

AL Sutterland, G Fond, A Kuin… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To perform a meta‐analysis on studies reporting prevalence of T oxoplasma
gondii (T. gondii) infection in any psychiatric disorder compared with healthy controls. Our …

Influence of latent Toxoplasma infection on human personality, physiology and morphology: pros and cons of the Toxoplasma–human model in studying the …

J Flegr - Journal of experimental Biology, 2013 - journals.biologists.com
The parasitic protozoan Toxoplasma gondii infects about one-third of the population of
developed countries. The life-long presence of dormant stages of this parasite in the brain …

Toxoplasmosis–a global threat. Correlation of latent toxoplasmosis with specific disease burden in a set of 88 countries

J Flegr, J Prandota, M Sovičková, ZH Israili - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Toxoplasmosis is becoming a global health hazard as it infects 30–50% of the
world human population. Clinically, the life-long presence of the parasite in tissues of a …

Toxoplasma gondii infection, from predation to schizophrenia: can animal behaviour help us understand human behaviour?

JP Webster, M Kaushik, GC Bristow… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.biologists.com
We examine the role of the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii as a manipulatory parasite and
question what role study of infections in its natural intermediate rodent hosts and other …

Latent toxoplasmosis and human

A Dalimi, A Abdoli - Iranian journal of parasitology, 2012 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Toxoplasmosis is one of the most common parasitic diseases worldwide. Although
estimated that one third of the world's population are infected with Toxoplasma gondii, but …

[PDF][PDF] Toxoplasmosis as a cause for behaviour disorders-overview of evidence and mechanisms

A Fekadu, T Shibre, AJ Cleare - Folia parasitologica, 2010 - folia.paru.cas.cz
Background–there is growing interest in the role of microbial agents in the causation of
psychiatric disorders. the neurotropic protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is one of the …

Association of Toxoplasma gondii seropositivity with cognitive function in healthy people: A systematic review and meta-analysis

L de Haan, AL Sutterland, JV Schotborgh… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The parasiteToxoplasma gondiihas been associated with behavioral alterations
and psychiatric disorders. Studies investigating neurocognition in people withT …

Increased incidence of traffic accidents in Toxoplasma-infected military drivers and protective effect RhD molecule revealed by a large-scale prospective cohort study

J Flegr, J Klose, M Novotná, M Berenreitterová… - BMC infectious …, 2009 - Springer
Background Latent toxoplasmosis, protozoan parasitosis with prevalence rates from 20 to
60% in most populations, is known to impair reaction times in infected subjects, which …