High seroprevalence of toxoplasma gondii and HIV-1 co-infection among drug users in Yunnan province, southwest China  

作　　者：Xin Chen Mei Ye Yan-Heng Zhou Feng-Liang Liu Lin Duo Hong Li Wei Pang Yong-Tang Zheng 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of the Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China [2]The Second People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming 650021, China [3]Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kunming 650022, China [4]Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, China

出　　处：《Science China(Life Sciences)》2016年第8期857-859,共3页中国科学（生命科学英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81271892,U1302224,U1202228);Key Scientific and Technological Program of China(2012ZX10001-006,2012ZX10001-007)

摘　　要：Dear Editor, Toxoplasma gondii was discovered more than 100 years ago and has a broad-spectrum of intermediate hosts in addi- tion to its definitive host, felids. Although it does not cause symptomatic illness in most adults, it can lead to mental retardation in congenitally infected children and serious diseases in immunocompromised patients （Hill et al., 2005）. The first report of T. gondii infection in China was pub- lished in Chinese in 1964; subsequently, many other cases have been carried out. Currently, most publications about the seroprevalence of T. gondii infection in Yunnan have examined infections in pets, domestic animals, and wild animals; however, few previously published studies have assessed human T. gondii infection in Yunnan province.Dear Editor,Toxoplasma gondii was discovered more than 100 years ago and has a broad-spectrum of intermediate hosts in addition to its definitive host,felids.Although it does not cause symptomatic illness in most adults,it can lead to mental retardation in congenitally infected children and

关 键 词：users TOXOPLASMA RETARDATION illness southwest infected likely PRONE children CONCLUSION 

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