Table 2.
The types of psychiatric disorder and seroprevalence of IgG antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in 445 psychiatric patients
| Patients with anti-T. gondii IgG antibodies | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of psychiatric disorder | ICD-10 diagnosis | No. tested | No. | % (95% CI) | P value* |
| Epilepsy | G40 | 49 | 10 | 20·41 (9·12–31·69) | 0·114 |
| Affective disorder | F30, F39 | 13 | 2 | 15·39 (0·00–35·00) | 0·745 |
| Somatoform disorder | F45 | 36 | 3 | 8·33 (0·00–17·36) | 0·476 |
| Schizophrenia | F20 | 34 | 11 | 32·35 (16·63–48·08) | 0·001 |
| Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol | F10, F18 | 53 | 10 | 18·87 (8·33–29·40) | 0·184 |
| Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of drugs | F13, F15, F19 | 26 | 3 | 11·54 (0·00–23·82) | 0·901 |
| Obsessive-compulsive disorder | F42 | 29 | 7 | 24·14 (8·56–39·71) | 0·068 |
| Mild depression | F32·051 | 23 | 3 | 13·04 (0·00–26·81) | 0·923 |
| Moderate depression | F32·151 | 52 | 8 | 15·39 (5·58–25·19) | 0·535 |
| Major depressive disorder | F32·251 | 39 | 3 | 7·69 (0·00–16·06) | 0·390 |
| Mental retardation | F71–37, F78 | 40 | 9 | 22·50 (9·56–35·44) | 0·070 |
| Alzheimer's disease | G30 | 33 | 5 | 15·15 (2·92–27·39) | 0·640 |
| Dementia in Alzheimer's disease with early onset | F00·0 | 18 | 3 | 16·67 (0·00–33·88) | 0·588 |
| Total | 445 | 77 | 17·30 (13·79–20·82) | 0·038 | |
*
Compared to 12·36% seroprevalence of IgG antibodies to T. gondii antibodies in controls (55/445).