The presence of anti-Toxoplasma antibodies in 50 donors and recipients of renal transplants

Abstract

Background: Toxoplasmosis is one of the prevalent parasitic diseases in the world with 10-40 percent of people having it as a latent infection. In cases of renal transplants, the condition either presents itself as a result of reactivation of the latent infection resulting in the weakness of immune system in a recipient or happens when a recipient simply contracts the condition from the donor through the organ transplant. The study examines IgM and IgG anti–toxoplasma antibodies in donors before the allograft and in recipients before and after the allograft.