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Relationship between Latent Toxoplasmosis and Depression in Clients of a Center for Assisted Reproduction

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F21%3A10431332" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/21:10431332 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=oXIf38uTtK" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=oXIf38uTtK</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10081052" target="_blank" >10.3390/pathogens10081052</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Relationship between Latent Toxoplasmosis and Depression in Clients of a Center for Assisted Reproduction

  • Original language description

    Latent infection of the globally spread parasite Toxoplasma gondii in humans has been associated with changes in personality and behavior. Numerous studies have investigated the effect of toxoplasmosis on depression, but their results are inconsistent. Our study focused on the effect of latent toxoplasmosis on depression in men and women in association with their fertility. In 2016-2018, we recruited clients (677 men and 664 women) of the Center for Assisted Reproduction and asked them to complete a standardized Beck Depression Inventory-II. In women without fertility problems, we found higher depression scores in Toxoplasma-positive than in Toxoplasma-negative (p = 0.010, Cohen&apos;s d = 0.48). Toxoplasma-positive infertile men, on the other hand, had lower depression scores than Toxoplasma-negative infertile men (p &lt;= 0.001, Cohen&apos;s d = 0.48). Our results are consistent with the previously described effects of latent toxoplasmosis, which seem to go in opposite directions regarding the effect on personality and behavior of men and women. Our results could be explained by gender-contrasting reactions to chronic stress associated with lifelong infection. This suggests that due to gender differences in the impact of latent toxoplasmosis, future studies ought to perform separate analyses for women and men.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA18-13692S" target="_blank" >GA18-13692S: Conservation of Rh Polymorphism in Modern Humans through Selection Favoring Heterozygotes – The Influence of the Genotype on Fertility and Viability</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Pathogens [online]

  • ISSN

    2076-0817

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    10

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    8

  • Country of publishing house

    CH - SWITZERLAND

  • Number of pages

    11

  • Pages from-to

    1052

  • UT code for WoS article

    000689793700001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85113489935