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 …

Inflammation and the two-hit hypothesis of schizophrenia

KA Feigenson, AW Kusnecov, SM Silverstein - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
The high societal and individual cost of schizophrenia necessitates finding better, more
effective treatment, diagnosis, and prevention strategies. One of the obstacles in this …

How and why Toxoplasma makes us crazy

J Flegr - Trends in parasitology, 2013 - cell.com
For a long time, a latent toxoplasmosis, the lifelong presence of dormant stages of
Toxoplasma in various tissues, including the brain, was considered harmless for …

[HTML][HTML] Toxoplasma gondii: an underestimated threat?

G Milne, JP Webster, M Walker - Trends in parasitology, 2020 - cell.com
Traditionally, the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii has been thought of as relevant to
public health primarily within the context of congenital toxoplasmosis or postnatally acquired …

[HTML][HTML] Negative effects of latent toxoplasmosis on mental health

J Flegr, J Horáček - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Infection by the parasite Toxoplasma, which affects about 33% of world population, is
associated with an increased risk of several mental health disorders, the most strongly with …

Toxoplasmosis can be a sexually transmitted infection with serious clinical consequences. Not all routes of infection are created equal

J Flegr, K Klapilová, Š Kaňková - Medical hypotheses, 2014 - Elsevier
Toxoplasma gondii infects about 30% of the human population. Common sources of
infection are oocysts in cat faeces contaminating drinking water or unwashed vegetables …

The known and missing links between Toxoplasma gondii and schizophrenia

HM Elsheikha, D Büsselberg, XQ Zhu - Metabolic brain disease, 2016 - Springer
Toxoplasma gondii, an intracellular protozoan parasite, has a striking predilection for
infecting the Central Nervous System and has been linked to an increased incidence of a …

[HTML][HTML] Is latent Toxoplasma gondii infection associated with the occurrence of schizophrenia? A case-control study

M Ademe, T Kebede, S Teferra, M Alemayehu, F Girma… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Neurotropic pathogens such as Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) which result in
chronic infections in the brain are associated with mental illnesses. In view of this, a growing …

Toxoplasma-infected subjects report an obsessive-compulsive disorder diagnosis more often and score higher in obsessive-compulsive inventory

J Flegr, J Horáček - European Psychiatry, 2017 - cambridge.org
BackgroundLatent toxoplasmosis, the life-long presence of dormant stages of Toxoplasma
in immunoprivileged organs and of anamnestic IgG antibodies in blood, affects about 30% of …

[HTML][HTML] Human toxoplasmosis in Mozambique: gaps in knowledge and research opportunities

L Manuel, G Santos-Gomes, EV Noormahomed - Parasites & Vectors, 2020 - Springer
Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic zoonotic disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii that afflicts
humans worldwide and wild and domestic warm-blooded animals. In immunocompetent …