Cat scratches, not bites, are associated with unipolar depression - cross-sectional study

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378050%3A_____%2F16%3A00473036" target="_blank" >RIV/68378050:_____/16:00473036 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/16:10333774

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1290-7" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1290-7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1290-7" target="_blank" >10.1186/s13071-015-1290-7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cat scratches, not bites, are associated with unipolar depression - cross-sectional study

Original language description

BACKGROUND:nnA recent study performed on 1.3 million patients showed a strong association between being bitten by a cat and probability of being diagnosed with depression. Authors suggested that infection with cat parasite Toxoplasma could be the reason for this association.nMETHOD:nnA cross sectional internet study on a non-clinical population of 5,535 subjects was undertaken.nRESULTS:nnThe subjects that reported having been bitten by a dog and a cat or scratched by a cat have higher Beck depression score. They were more likely to have visited psychiatrists, psychotherapists and neurologists in past two years, to have been previously diagnosed with depression (but not with bipolar disorder). Multivariate analysis of models with cat biting, cat scratching, toxoplasmosis, the number of cats at home, and the age of subjects as independent variables showed that only cat scratching had positive effect on depression (p = 0.004). Cat biting and toxoplasmosis had no effect on the depression, and the number of cats at home had a negative effect on depression (p = 0.021).nCONCLUSIONS:nnAbsence of association between toxoplasmosis and depression and five times stronger association of depression with cat scratching than with cat biting suggests that the pathogen responsible for mood disorders in animals-injured subjects is probably not the protozoon Toxoplasma gondii but another organism; possibly the agent of cat-scratched disease - the bacteria Bartonella henselae.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EB - Genetics and molecular biology

OECD FORD branch

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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

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Parasites Vectors

ISSN

1756-3305

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Jan

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000367572800002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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