Table 2 Sociodemographic and risk factors of drug addicted individuals and molecular-prevalence of T. gondii infection referred to the laboratories of the medical centers of Lar city in Fars Province during April 2019 to December 2019
Characteristic | PCR with RE genomic target | P-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Positive | Negative | |||||
Frequency | % | Frequency | % | |||
Gender | Male | 5 | 4.7 | 102 | 95.3 | 0.661 |
Female | 2 | 6.7 | 28 | 93.3 | ||
Married | No | 2 | 6.5 | 29 | 93.5 | 0.700 |
Yes | 5 | 4.7 | 101 | 95.3 | ||
Age (year) | 30 > | 0 | 0 | 13 | 100 | 0.658 |
31–40 | 4 | 7.0 | 53 | 93.0 | ||
41–50 | 2 | 6.5 | 34 | 94.4 | ||
51–60 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 100 | ||
60 < | 1 | 8.3 | 11 | 91.7 | ||
Education | Illiterate | 0 | 0 | 5 | 100 | 0.876 |
Primary school | 3 | 7.3 | 38 | 92.7 | ||
Secondary school | 3 | 5.5 | 52 | 94.5 | ||
Diploma | 1 | 3.3 | 29 | 96.7 | ||
College | 0 | 0 | 6 | 100 | ||
Occupation | Self-employed | 7 | 6.0 | 109 | 94.0 | 0.721 |
Unemployed | 0 | 0 | 3 | 100 | ||
Housewife | 0 | 0 | 10 | 100 | ||
Employee | 0 | 0 | 8 | 100 | ||
Residence | Urban | 4 | 4.5 | 84 | 95.5 | 0.700 |
Rural | 3 | 6.1 | 46 | 93.9 | ||
Consumption of meat | Grilled | 4 | 11.8 | 30 | 88.2 | 0.125 |
Boiled | 2 | 2.7 | 73 | 97.3 | ||
Grilled/boiled | 1 | 3.6 | 27 | 96.4 | ||
Type of water source | Well water | 2 | 7.4 | 2 | 92.6 | |
Cistern | 1 | 2.9 | 33 | 97.1 | ||
Treated pipe water | 4 | 5.7 | 66 | 94.3 | 0.801 | |
Mineral water | 0 | 0 | 6 | 100 | ||
Type of vegetable wash | Only water | 7 | 6.4 | 103 | 93.6 | 0.178 |
With disinfectant | 0 | 0 | 27 | 100 | ||
Contact with cat | No | 5 | 6.0 | 79 | 94.0 | 0.706 |
Yes | 2 | 3.8 | 51 | 96.2 | ||
Duration of consumption of narcotic drug | Less than a year | 0 | 0 | 4 | 100 | 0.99 |
More than a year | 7 | 5.3 | 126 | 94.7 | ||
The way of consumption of narcotic drugs | Inhalation | 3 | 4.5 | 64 | 95.5 | 0.827 |
Oral | 1 | 4.2 | 23 | 95.8 | ||
Oral-inhalation | 3 | 7.5 | 37 | 92.5 | ||
Injection-inhalation | 0 | 0 | 6 | 100 | ||
Type of the consumed narcotic drug | Opium | 7 | 6.3 | 105 | 93.8 | 0.439 |
Heroin | 0 | 0 | 11 | 100 | ||
Crystal methamphetamine | 0 | 0 | 14 | 100 | ||