title: [Prevalence of latent toxoplasma infection in HIV infection patients].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To know the prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii latent infection in HIV-1 infected patients and to compare it with the prevalence in a group of parenteral drug users, non-infected by HIV.
  
  
  METHODS
  We study 255 HIV-1 patients revised in our hospital in the last 6 years. The control group were 116 drug addicts non-infected by HIV followed in an educational program of deshabituation. We tested IgG anti-toxoplasma by enzymatic inmunoessay (MEIA). An IgG plasma value of 6UI/ML or more was an indicative of toxoplasma previous infection. We used Chi Square and Yatchts correction tests for the statistical analysis, settling down a significance point of 95%.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We founded 36.7% positive IgG anti-toxoplasma in the group on HIV-1 infected patients, non drugs addicts, against 30.9% in the group of HIV-1 drug addicts patients. (OR 0.77; 0.35 < OR < 1.66). The control group showed a Toxoplasma seroprevalence of 26.7%, without statistically significant against the drug addicts HIV group (OR = 1.55; 0.93 < OREGON < 2.59).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii latent infection in our study was similar to the european results. We didn't found a higher prevalence in HIV-1 patients than in patients non infected by HIV-1.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez, Huelva.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boto de los Bueis
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vega Alemán
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gálvez Acebal
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Merino Muñoz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Creagh Cerquera
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pujol de la Llave
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000469:parasitology*; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D012698:Serologic Tests; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000469:parasitology*; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000276:immunology; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*
chemical_list: D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan; D007074:Immunoglobulin G
vernacular_title: Prevalencia de infección latente frente a toxoplasma en pacientes con infección VIH.