Table 4.

Incidence of T. gondii infection in women of childbearing age (1990–2000)

Country	Year of samplinga	Incidence per 1000 pregnanciesb	Incidence per 1000 susceptible mothersb	Number of pregnant women tested (n)b	Prevalence (%)	Reference
Argentina	1992	7	–	–	40	[381]
Australia	1986–89	1.08*	1.6	10207	35	[137]
Austria	1989–91	0.08	–	–	37	[196]
Colombia	1991–92	3.75–15	10–40	937	60	[67]
Czech Republic	1982–94	2.2	3.70*	50023	40	[382]
Denmark	1990	0.44*	0.61	5402	27	[299]
	1992–96	1.5	2.1	89873	28	[232]
Finland	1988–89	1.49*	2.4	16733	20	[308,383]
Germany	1987–90	2.53	9.28*	4355	73	[62]
	1990	4.9–6.1	–	126733*	–	[384]
Greece	< 1996	6	–	914	37	[314]
Israel	1988–89	14	20*	213	21	[319]
Norway	1992–94	1.31*	1.47	35940	11	[385]
Slovenia	1991–94	4.73*	7.5	8254	37	[386]
Spain	< 1996	0.56	1.3	3580	57	[387]
Sweden	1992–93	1.29*	1.51*	3094	14	[350]
United Arab Emirates	< 1997	31	41*	1503	23	[375]
United Kingdom	1989–92	0.62*	0.68*	1621	10	[376]
	1992	3.97*	4–6	13328	8	[377]

^aYears of sampling are listed as published in the references. In cases where this information was not available, the year listed here is the year when the study was published, as indicated by ‘<’. Data from the 1980s are included if the study was published in the 1990s and if no recent data were available for the area.

^bFigures marked with ‘*’ were calculated from the published data. –, not reported.