Seroepidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii amongst Pregnant Women in Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia

Table 1

Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma IgM and IgG according to selected characteristics ().

Characteristics	Prevalence	95% CI	value
Toxoplasma IgM
Age groups ()
15–19	0 (0.0)	—	0.633
20–24	3 (7.1)	2.6–19.1
25–29	3 (5.0)	1.8–13.7
30–34	1 (2.6)	0.61–13.2
35–39	5 (13.5)	6.0–28.1
40–44	0 (0)	—
Residence type ()
Urban	12 (7.4)	4.3–12.5	0.000
Rural	0 (0)	—
Nationality ()
Saudi	9 (6.0)	3.2–11.0	0.552
Non-Saudi	3 (6.7)	2.4–17.9
Work status ()
Working	1 (2.0)	0.48–10.4	0.138
Not-working	11 (7.6)	4.3–13.1
Trimester of pregnancy ()
1st trimester	0 (0)	—	0.545
2nd trimester	3 (5.5)	2.0–14.9
3rd trimester	7 (6.4)	3.2–12.6
Overall prevalence	12 (6.2)	3.6–10.5
Toxoplasma IgG
Age groups ()
15–19	1 (11.1)	2.5–44.5	0.150
20–24	5 (11.9)	5.3–25.1
25–29	12 (20.0)	11.9–31.8
30–34	6 (15.4)	7.3–29.3
35–39	13 (35.1)	21.4–51.4
40–44	2 (25.0)	7.4–56.8
Residence type ()
Urban	34 (21.0)	15.4–27.9	0.538
Rural	4 (15.4)	6.3–33.7
Nationality ()
Saudi	28 (18.7)	13.3–25.7	0.256
Non-Saudi	11 (24.4)	14.3–38.8
Work status ()
Working	6 (12.0)	5.7–23.9	0.072
Not-working	33 (22.8)	16.7–30.3
Trimester of pregnancy ()
1st trimester	3 (16.7)	6.1–39.6	0.760
2nd trimester	12 (21.8)	13.0–34.4
3rd trimester	19 (17.3)	11.4–25.4
Overall prevalence	39 (20)	15.0–26.1