Table 4.

The effect of female gender on the seropositivity for T. gondii in livestock species.

Factor	Species	Statistically significant	Not statistically significant
Female gender	Pigs	73	6, 20, 28, 43, 53, 86, 94
	Sheep	15 (p), 36, 45 (p), 68, 95	7, 23, 35, 41, 59, 72, 81, 88, 90, 92, 98
	Goats	19, 30, 68	8, 35, 81, 88, 92, 96
	Cattle	–	21, 53
	Equids	102, 103	5, 11, 31, 40, 54, 100, 101

(p) = protective factor; coding of references: 5 = Alvarado-Esquivel et al. (2012b), 6 = Alvarado-Esquivel et al. (2014), 7 = Alvarado-Esquivel et al. (2013a), 8 = Alvarado-Esquivel et al. (2013b), 11 = Cazarotto et al. (2016), 15 = Cosendey-KezenLeite et al. (2014), 19 = de Moura et al. (2016), 20 = de Sousa et al. (2014), 21 = de Souza et al. (2016), 23 = Deksne et al. (2017), 28 = Esteves et al. (2014), 30 = Garcia et al. (2012), 31 = Garcia-Bocanegra et al. (2012), 35 = Gazzonis et al. (2015), 36 = Gebremedhin et al. (2013), 40 = Guerra et al. (2018), 41 = Guimaraes et al. (2013), 43 = Herrero et al. (2016), 45 = Holec-Gasior et al. (2015), 53 = Klun et al. (2006), 54 = Kouam et al. (2010), 59 = Magalhaes et al. (2016), 68 = Rego et al. (2016), 72 = Sakata et al. (2012), 73 = Santoro et al. (2017); 81 = Tzanidakis et al. (2012), 86 = Villari et al. (2009), 88 = Xu et al. (2015), 90 = Zhang et al. (2016), 92 = Zou et al. (2015), 94 = Samico-Fernandes et al. (2017), 95 = Tilahun et al. (2018), 96 = Bawm et al. (2016), 98 = Yin et al. (2015), 100 = Almeida et al. (2017), 101 = Bartova et al. (2017), 102 = Machacova et al. (2014), 103 = Miao et al. (2013).