[Intraocular diseases and toxoplasma infection--a matched case-control study].
A matched case-control study was used to identify the relation between intraocular diseases and toxoplasma infection. We found 37 (36.6%) out of 101 patients with intraocular diseases to be toxoplasma IgG antibody positive, while 21 control patients (20.7%) to be antibody positive against the same organism (P less than 0.05, OR = 2.14, EF1 = 0.192). 27 (36.5%) out of 74 patients with uveitis and 11 (14.9%) out of 74 matched patients were toxoplasma IgG antibody positive respectively (P less than 0.01, OR = 3, EF2 = 0.23). The toxoplasma infection as an important factor in patients with intraocular diseases is suggested by the results.
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First and Second Hospital, West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu.
D000818:Animals; D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan / Q000097:blood; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000032:analysis; D016555:Matched-Pair Analysis; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000276:immunology; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D014605:Uveitis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology*
D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan; D007074:Immunoglobulin G