Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in different populations of native Liberians.
An opportunist sero-epidemiological screening of 390 persons during an epidemiologic survey into the distribution of filarial infection in Liberia/West Africa provided data on the distribution of T. gondii antibodies. The average prevalence of antibodies according to the dye-test titers of 1:10 or 1:4 was 45 resp. 58%. After arbitrary division of the total group into regional subgroups there was a rising trend of antibodies with age up to 90% prevalence in the group of coastal residence of origin whereas the prevalence rates remained at a level around 50% in the inland subgroup. The implications of the findings are discussed, but the significance of this observation has to be investigated by a planned study.
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