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Volume 12, Number 4—April 2006
Research

Recently Acquired Toxoplasma gondii Infection, Brazil

Jeffrey L. Jones*Comments to Author , Cristina Muccioli†, Rubens Belfort†, Gary N. Holland‡, Jacquelin M. Roberts*, and Claudio Silveira§
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Federal University of São Paulo Paulista School of Medicine, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; ‡David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; §Clinica Silveira, Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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Table 1

Demographics of Toxoplasma gondii patients and controls, Erechim, Brazil, 2003–2004, N=241

Factor Patients, no. (%) (n = 131*) Controls, no. (%) (n = 110*) χ2 p value
Age (y) <0.0001
<5 14 (10.7) 1 (0.9)
6–10 16 (12.2) 16 (14.6)
11–15 19 (14.5) 14 (12.7)
16–20 12 (9.2) 31 (28.2)
21–30 21 (16.0) 31 (28.2)
31–40 28 (21.4) 11 (10.0)
>41 21 (16.0) 6 (5.5)
Sex 0.01
Male 72 (55.0) 42 (38.2)
Female 59 (45.0) 68 (61.8)
Race 0.54
White 127 (97.0) 105 (95.5)
Other 4 (3.1) 5 (4.5)
Ethnicity 0.51
German, Polish, or Italian 117 (94.4) 102 (96.2)
Other 7 (5.7) 4 (3.8)

*Numbers within each category may not add to total n because of nonresponse.

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