Epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii among blood donors in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Mansouri, Asieh; Mojarad, Mohammad Reza Adhami; Badfar, Gholamreza; Abasian, Lila; Rahmati, Shoboo; Kooti, Wesam; YektaKooshali, Mohammad Hossein; Soleymani, Ali; Azami, Milad

doi:10.1016/j.transci.2017.03.011

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“…According to a recently published systematic review of toxoplasmosis in Iranian blood donors, the difference between men and women was not statistically significant (36). Regarding age groups, IgG positivity was more frequent in donors aged > 45 years that was similar to other studies indicating that the rate of seropositivity increased with age as a consequence of the increased opportunity of acquiring the infection.…”

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Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Healthy Volunteer Blood Donors Using Serological and Molecular Methods from Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Southwest Iran

Naeini

Soureshjani

Jafari

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Jundishapur J Microbiol

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Background: Toxoplasmosis is a ubiquitous zoonotic disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii. Blood and blood products can be a probable route of T. gondii transmission, especially in patients undergoing multiple transfusions. Objectives: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence of T. gondii infection among healthy blood donors in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. Methods: We collected 385 blood samples from blood donors referring to the three biggest Blood Transfusion Organization Centers in the province during the period from January to June 2017. IgG and IgM antibodies against T. gondii were examined using enzymelinked immunosorbent assay. Moreover, all samples were tested by loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method for the detection of DNA of T. gondii. Results: The seroprevalence rates of IgG and IgM anti-T. gondii antibodies were 37.9% and 1.56%, respectively. With the LAMP method, 1.56% of the samples were positive for the DNA of T. gondii. Of these, four (1.04%) were seropositive for both IgG and IgM and two (0.52%) were positive only for IgG. Moreover, statistical analyses indicated that several risk factors including gender, age, contact with cats, and consumption of undercooked meat were significantly related to T. gondii seropositivity in blood donors. Conclusions: This study indicated that anti-T. gondii antibodies were highly prevalent among apparently healthy blood donors in Southwest Iran. There was a possibility of infection transmission by blood transfusion while there is a lack of screening tests for Toxoplasma infection in the Blood Transfusion Organizations. It is strongly suggested that appropriate and sensitive screening programs be designed by the LAMP method for the detection of T. gondii in blood donors.

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Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Healthy Volunteer Blood Donors Using Serological and Molecular Methods from Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Southwest Iran

Naeini

Soureshjani

Jafari

et al. 2019

Jundishapur J Microbiol

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“…Observed differences are due to different sampling. In addition, differences in measured parameters in different populations can be the reasons of heterogeneity in this study (45)(46)(47).…”

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Intensity and Frequency of Moral Distress among Iranian Nurses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

YektaKooshali

Esmaeilpour-Bandboni

Andacheh

2018

Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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Background: Moral distress is a common phenomenon in the nursing profession. Objectives: This study was aimed to determine the mean intensity and frequency of moral distress among Iranian Nurses. Methods: This systematic review and meta-analysis was based on PRISMA guideline and searching in National databases as SID, Magiran, Irandoc, Noormag, IranMedex, and Medlib as well as International databases as Madlib and Web of Sciences, Scopus, PubMed, Direct-Science, Cochrane, Embase, Springer, Online Library Wiley, Ebsco, CEBM, CINHAL, SAGE, and Google Scholar were published by 2016. Researched keywords were in Persian and their English equivalents in accordance with their Mesh: "Moral", "Morale", "Distress", "Iran", "Frequency", "intensity", "Ethics", "Nurse", and all possible combinations. The obtained documents were analyzed based on appropriate checklist through a random effects model by using Review Manager Software ver: 5.3.5.

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“…More recently, a series of publications embarked on analysing biomedical and health research in individual countries of the EMR, including Egypt, Islamic Republic of Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar and Tunisia (40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(49)(50)(51)(52)(53)(54)(55). Most of these investigations included geographical distribution studies and quantitative analysis of medical publications from EMR countries by using either raw data or normalized data according to population size and gross domestic product (GDP) spending.…”

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Biomedical and health research geography in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Tadmouri¹,

Mandil²,

Rashidian³

2019

East Mediterr Health J

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Background: Measuring scientific outputs allows for objective evaluation of established health research systems and ranking countries according to scientific achievements. To our knowledge, attempts for systematic mapping health research output in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) are limited. Aims: We aimed to conduct a detailed bibliometric analysis of EMR biomedical and health research productivity during the period 2004-2013, considering country of first author. Methods: We applied an improved PubMed search strategy to obtain precise data on EMR research productivity, limiting articles to reviews, original research and case reports. Data were normalized to global research output, represented by total articles indexed in PubMed per year from 2004-2013, according to population size of each country. Second order polynomial trend lines were calculated and comparing 5-year periods: Results: Inspecting overall raw data, a clear increasing trend is observed. Regional share of global health related research ranged from 0.85-2.36% of total PubMed indexed publications during the study period. Five countries contributed to 80% of all published articles during study period; i.e., Islamic Republic of Iran (39%), Egypt (14%), Saudi Arabia (11%), Tunisia, and Pakistan (8% each). Overall, 2.35 articles are published per 100 000 population per year. While Kuwait maintained the highest per capita publication (followed by Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar and Islamic Republic of Iran), Qatar, Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia demonstrated the highest "per capita" population growth in publications. Three academic institutions accounted for over 10% of all publications that were led by an investigator from the Region. Collectively, most prolific 25 EMR institutions published 44% of all published biomedical and health research in the EMR. Conclusions: The overall global share of EMR health research publication is smaller than its global share of population or wealth. Biomedical and health research needs greater encouragement and supporting many EMR countries and/or institutions, especially those found to be least prolific in our analysis. The increase in academic publication on health has been more prominent in a few countries only. It is anticipated that the concentration of biomedical and health research in EMR academic institutions would help in translating knowledge into public health outcomes, if more suitable conditions are provided.

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Epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii among blood donors in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract: The results of this review indicate a high seroprevalence of T. gondii (about one-third) in Iranian blood donors and emphasizes the importance of screening the seroprevalence of T. gondii of donated blood in Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization.

Cited by 27 publications

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Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Healthy Volunteer Blood Donors Using Serological and Molecular Methods from Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Southwest Iran

Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Healthy Volunteer Blood Donors Using Serological and Molecular Methods from Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Southwest Iran

Intensity and Frequency of Moral Distress among Iranian Nurses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Biomedical and health research geography in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

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