An epidemiological survey of human sera for antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in two states of Nigeria.
Sero-epidemiological survey of 34 blind people, 26 abattoir workers and 117 others to detect antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii was conducted. Only 15% of the blind people had positive levels of agglutinins in their sera. 42% of the abattoir workers and 25% of other donors were also serologically positive. While Toxoplasmosis is zoonotic, it does not seem that the disease was responsible for the blindness among the group that we have studied.
D000003:Abattoirs; D000906:Antibodies / Q000032:analysis*; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology; D006386:Hemagglutination Tests; D006801:Humans; D009549:Nigeria; D010820:Physicians; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000276:immunology*; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D014730:Veterinary Medicine
D000906:Antibodies