Toxoplasmosis, but not borreliosis, is associated with psychiatric disorders and symptoms
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F18%3A10392416" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/18:10392416 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00023752:_____/18:43919439
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2018.02.008" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2018.02.008</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2018.02.008" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.schres.2018.02.008</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Toxoplasmosis, but not borreliosis, is associated with psychiatric disorders and symptoms
Original language description
Infection by the parasite Toxoplasma, which affects about 33% of world population, is associated with increased risk of several mental health disorders, the most strongly with schizophrenia. It is unknown whether toxoplasmosis really plays a substantial role in the etiopathogenesis of these disorders and whether schizophrenia is associated with this infection the most strongly, or whether this association has just been the most intensively studied for historical reasons. We used the data from 3,440 and 7,800 subjects tested for toxoplasmosis and borreliosis, respectively, who took part in an internet survey, for searching in the associations of these infections with 22 mental health disorders and other indices of impaired mental health. The typical symptom associated with toxoplasmosis was anxiety, and the typical toxoplasmosis-associated disorders were autism (OR=4.86), schizophrenia (OR=3.34), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (OR=3.02), Asperger syndrome (OR=2.49), antisocial personality disorder (OR=1.81), OCD (OR=1.69), and anxiety disorder (OR=1.57). Borreliosis was associated only with symptoms of depression and with major depression (OR=1.65). The negative effects of borreliosis were detectable only in the Toxoplasma-infected subjects. Toxoplasmosis could play a substantial role in the etiopathogenesis of mental health disorders and its association with schizophrenia is the second strongest association, after autism.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-20958S" target="_blank" >GA16-20958S: The role of raising cats and dogs and of their infections in development of clinical and subclinical forms of depression, OCD, phobias and psychoses</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Schizophrenia Research
ISSN
0920-9964
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
197
Issue of the periodical within the volume
January
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
2
Pages from-to
603-604
UT code for WoS article
000437786100103
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85042081647