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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana

Print version ISSN 1814-5469On-line version ISSN 2308-0531

Rev. Fac. Med. Hum. vol.21 no.3 Lima July/Sept 2021

http://dx.doi.org/10.25176/rfmh.v21i3.3774 

Original article

Toxoplasma Gondii infection and associated factors in blood donors from hospital ii-2 Tarapoto, Peru, July to December 2019.

Adolfo Díaz-Ginéz1  2  , Medical Technologist, Masters in Science

Heber Silva-Díaz3  4  , Biologist Microbiologist, Doctor in Science

1Servicio de Banco de Sangre, Hospital II-2 Tarapoto. Tarapoto, Peru.

2Universidad de Chiclayo. Chiclayo, Peru.

3Hospital Regional Lambayeque. Chiclayo, Peru.

4Facultad de Medicina Humana, Universidad de San Martín de Porres. Chiclayo, Peru.

ABSTRACT

Introduction:

Toxoplasmosis is a worldwide parasitic infection caused by Toxoplasma gondii that can be transmitted through blood transfusions.

Objectives:

To determine the frequency and associated factors of T. gondii infection in blood donors from Hospital II-2 Tarapoto, Peru, July to December 2019.

Methods:

Analytical cross-sectional study carried out in a sample of 92 donors. Infection was determined by detecting serum IgM and IgG anti T. gondii antibodies by the Elisa technique. Sociodemographic, environmental and habit factors were collected by applying an interview to each volunteer participant.

Results:

The donor sample was characterized by a median age of 30 years, male gender (76.1%), urban home area (81.5%) and student occupation (34.8%); likewise, 29.4% stated that they ingested non-potable water and 61.9% had contact with earth or sand. 77.2% (95% CI: 68.6 - 85.8) of donors had past infection. No cases of active infection were observed. Contact with cats and domestic animals was associated with infection by T. gondii (p = 0.037; PR = 1.28 and 95% CI = 1.02 - 1.61).

Conclusions:

Blood donors from Hospital II-2 Tarapoto presented a high frequency of chronic infection by T. gondii. The possible transmission of the parasite through blood transfusion is suggested, for which reason it is recommended to assess the inclusion of toxoplasmosis as a screening test.

Keywords: Toxoplasma; Blood donors; Blood Transfusion; Risk factors. (Source: MeSH - NLM)

INTRODUCTION

Toxoplasmosis is an infectious disease casued by the protozooic parasite Toxoplasma gondii, and it affects the majority of warm-blooded animals, including humans. Considered a reemerging and cosmopolitan zoonosis, whose definitive hosts are cats and other felines1,2. Human infection is frequent and is mainly transmitted through the intake of raw or undercooked animals and contaminated water, transplacentally from mother to fetus, and through blood transfusion or transplants2-4.

Infection in immunocompromised people is subclinical or with mild and self-limited clinical manifestations, however the parasite may “hide” and remain inactive for years and reactivate when the immunological system is affected4,5; leading not only to an active disease but the possibility of a hematogenous transmission. Primary infection in pregnant women is the most important and may produce fetal death, neurological and ocular lesions, and disabling consequences6-10. While the infection represents high morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised people5,11-13. Likewise, recent studies have linked toxoplasmosis with Schizophrenia14.

Exposure of T. gondii in blood donors around the world is 33 %. Brazil, a bordering country to Peru and with similar climate and environmental characteristics, is where the highest seroprevalence in donors has been reported at 75%15. While, in Peru, the only report was in a hospital in Pasco, where 83.9% rate of IgG anti T. gondii antibodies were found16. We should consider that each year there are hundreds of thousands of blood transfusions in a medical practice each time more common in Peru and worldwide.

It should be noted that, in Peru, the screening tests for infectious diseases in blood transfusions do not include T. gondii. Furthermore, the prevalence and associated factors (sociodemographic, environmental and habits) of T. gondii infection in the study population are unknown3,15,17. For this reason, the current study’s objective was to determine the rate and associated factors of Toxoplasma gondii infection in donors of the Hospital II-2 Tarapoto, Peru, July to December 2019.

METHODS

Design and Study Area

Observational, cross-sectional, analytical and prospective study. The study was performed in the geographic space of the northeastern region of Peru, department of San Martin. This region is 350 MASL, with an approximate population of 180,073 inhabitants, presents a tropical climate and is mainly rural. Hospital II-2 of Tarapoto, the most important city of the region, is the major complex hospital in the region.

Population and sample

The population consists of approximately 1200 donors of the Blood Bank Service of Hospital II-2 of Tarapoto during the months of July to December of 2019. We studied a sample of 92 donors, a size obtained through the informatic software online: Working in Epidemiology to assess the proportion when the population is known. For these purposes, we took into account a 95% confidence Interval, 8% error and an 83.6% expected prevalence, according to reference(16). This was a simple random sampling.

We excluded donors who could not read, understand or who declined to sign the informed consent.

Variables and instruments

T. gondii infection was measured through serologic tests that were standardized using Enzyme Linked Inmunosorbente Assay); following the manufacturer’s recommendations (Vircell ®). The IgM antibodies were evaluated qualitatively (Kit Toxoplasma Elisa IgM capture-Vircell ®), IgG (Kit Toxoplasma Elisa IgG capture-Vircell ®) against T. gondii. The positive interpretation, according to the kit, would be the index values greater than 11, in both assessments.

The disease detection diagnostic kits used showed inserted written information that validated its purpose. The sensitivity and specificity described for the kits were 100% and 97% for IgM and 98% and 100% for IgG, respectively. A second sample was requested after 15 to 21 days for the donors whose samples resulted only positive to IgM or IgG, to evaluate seroconversion (from IgM to IgG) or titer increments of IgG.

Acute toxoplasmosis (active infection) was diagnosed when sample results were positive to IgM and IgG, or when there was evidence of seroconversion from IgM to IgG or IgG titer increase of more than four-fold in the second sample. While chronic toxoplasmosis was diagnosed when samples were positive only to IgM or IgG and no seroconversion or titer increase was evidenced in the second sample of IgM and IgG, respectively.

On the other hand, the sociodemographic factors were measured through an interview guide. This document was first evaluated by experts in Infectology and Microbiology and contained questions regarding sociodemographic, environmental, and dietary habit variables.

Procedures

Participants were enrolled during the donor evaluation at the blood bank in the hospital, where they signed the informed consent. The collection of sociodemographic factors was performed through an interview process for each participant. Afterwards, a venous blood sample was taken, where infection was detected through serum IgM and IgG anti Toxoplasma gondii antibodies.

Statistical analysis

The collected data was organized in a Microsoft Excel 2013 data base. Afterwards, the data was analyzed with a Stata vs 11.1 statistical program and according to the nature of each variable. A descriptive analysis of the qualitative variables was performed through absolute and relative rates, and confidence intervals of 95% (CI 95%). Quantitative variables were presented as measures of central tendency and dispersion generating tables for its analysis, with a preliminary Kolmogorov-Smirnov Goodness of Fit test.

The bivariate analysis of association of toxoplasmosis and factors were performed though Pearson’s chi-squared test or Fisher’s exact test and a significance level of p<0,05. The measure of associations between factors and the greater rate of T. gondii infection were presented as prevalence ratio (PR) with a confidence interval of 95%.

Ethical consideration

We obtained the institutional consent of the blood bank of the Hospital II-2 of Tarapoto to carry out this study. Furthermore, we requested the protocol revision and approval by the institutional and independent ethics committee of the Hospital Regional Lambayeque. We also guaranteed, at all times, the fulfillment of criteria of autonomy and anonymity of each participant, as well as the voluntary participation in the study after reading, understanding and signing the written informed consent.

RESULTS

We studied 92 donors in the Hospital II Tarapoto, September through December of 2019. Median age was 30 years, interquartile range was 22 to 36 years.

77,2% (CI95 %: 68,6 % - 85,8 %) of donors presented IgG anti T. gondii, corresponding to chronic infection or past exposure. No donors with presence of IgM anti T. gondii. were observed. No cases of acute infection by T. gondii were observed.

The donor sample in the study period was characterized predominantly by the masculine gender (76,1 %), origin from the San Martin region (90,2 %), urban residential zone (81,5 %) and student as their occupation (34,8 %). (Seetable 1).

Table 1.  Sociodemographic factors associated to infection by T. gondii in blood donors from Hospital II-2 Tarapoto, Peru, July to December 2019. 

Sociodemographic characteristics N (%) T. gondii / total (%) p-Value
Age (years)
18 to 29 44 (47,8) 31/44(70,5) 0,213*
30 to 59 48 (52,2) 40/48(83,3)
Sex
Femenine 22 (23,9) 18/22(81,8) 0,584*
Masculine 70 (76,1) 53/70(75,7)
Origin
San Martin 83 (90,2) 65/83(78,3) 0,678*
Others 9 (9,8) 6/9(66,7)
Residential zone
Rural 17 (18,5) 15/17(88,2) 0,341*
Urban 75 (81,5) 56/75(74,7)
Occupation
Agriculture-laborer 19 (20,6) 12/19(63,2) 0,641**
Home 9 (9,8) 8/9(88,9)
Merchant 19 (20,6) 16/19(84,2)
Student 32 (34,8) 25/32(78,1)
Office 9 (9,8) 7/9(77,8)
Health 4 (4,4) 3/4(75,0)

(*) p-Value from Fisher’s Exact test, (**) p-Value from Chi-squared test.

With respect to the environmental and habit aspects, the sample was characterized predominantly by no contact with cats, dogs, domestic or wild animals, with 66,3 %, 60,9 %, respectively. Likewise, 29,4 % ingested non-potable water and 61,9% referred having contact with soil or sand (Seetable 2).

Table 2.  Environmental and habit factors associated to infection by T. gondii in blood donors from Hospital II-2 Tarapoto, Peru, July to December 2019. 

Environmental and habit characteristics N (%) T. gondii / total (%) p-Value*
Contact with cats
Yes 31 (33,7) 28/31(90,3) 0,037
No 61 (66,3) 43/61(70,5)
Contact with dogs
Yes 36 (39,1) 30/36(83,3) 0,315
No 56 (60,9) 41/56(73,2)
Contact with domestic animals
Yes 31 (33,7) 28/31(90,3) 0,037
No 61 (66,3) 43/61(70,5)
Contact with wild animals
Yes 7 (7,6) 5/7(71,4) 0,999
No 85 (92,4) 66/85(77,6)
Intake of non-potable water
Yes 27 (29,4) 22/27(81,5) 0,596
No 65 (70,6) 49/65(75,4)
Intake of raw or undercooked meat
Yes 9 (9,8) 8/9(88,9) 0,459
No 83 (90,2) 63/83(75,9)
Intake of raw vegetables
Yes 5 (5,4) 4/5(80,0) 0,999
No 87 (94,6) 67/87(77,0)
Contact with soil or sand
Yes 57 (61,9) 45/57(78,9) 0,618
No 35 (38,1) 26/35(74,3)

(*) p-Value from Fisher’s exact test

In the bivariate analysis, we observed that none of the evaluated sociodemographic variables presented an association with infection by T. gondii (Seetable 1). However, we observed that in the environmental factors, contact with cats and domestic animals presented an association with infection by T. gondii, both with values of p=0,037; RP=1,28 and CI95 %=1,02 - 1,61 (Seetable 2).

DISCUSSION

In the population of this study, the predominantly masculine gender (76,1 %) and the median age of 30 years stand out, which describes the type of people that are participating as blood donors, volunteers or replacements. Also, it is a predominantly urban population (81,5 %), that however engage in activities with dirt and sand contact (61,9 %), drink non-potable water and more than half of them have contact with cats, dogs or domestic or wild animals. These characteristics reveal the multiple possibilities that the population presents to acquire T. gondii3, given that these are recognized as risk factors for disease transmission.

In the current study performed with donor sample from a blood bank in the Hospital II Tarapoto, we observed that 77,2 % of donors presented evidence of past infection or chronic T. gondii infection, by virtue of seropositivity of IgG anti T. gondii antibodies, without seroconversion. These results reveal the high exposure of this study’s population to the parasite and, therefore, the existence of multiple risk factors that allow one or more forms of parasite transmission (intake of contaminated food or water, zoonotic, transplacental or transfusion)3.

When the infection is “past” or chronic, in theory no circulating parasites “exist”, however, the risk exists that the infection be transmitted in the large quantities of blood transfused. In addition, despite primary infection not producing serious complications in immunocompromised individuals, the reactivation of the disease in the future, when the immune system is affected by natural or iatrogenic causes, is a real possibility2,5,18.

The high seropositivity of IgG in blood donor sin the Hospital II Tarapoto, Peru, observed in our study (77,2 %), contrasts with that observed in prior studies around the world, also in blood donors, where they found lower rates: 5,8 % in India19, 29,6 %20and 31,8 %21in Irán, around de 7%22-24in China and 56,9 % in Egypt25. Likewise, in Latin America, the seropositivity rates vary: 17,4% in El Salvador26, 29,9 % in Colombia27, 13,5 % in México17and from 38,2 % to 73,3 % in Cuba28-30. While in Tingo María, Peru, a region of the central jungle, a high rate similar to that observed in the current study was reported (83,9%)16. In the same manner, Silva-Díaz et al. evidenced high seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women in Lambayeque (35,8 %)10. The comparison with these studies reveals that the study population presents one of the highest rates of T. gondii exposure and infection.

However, in this study we did not observe donors with primary or acute infection, due to the absence of IgM anti T. gondii antibodies or the increase of IgG titers. Considering that the median age of donors was 30 years, with a range of 22 to 36 years, these results indicate that parasite exposure is frequent and primary infection in the study population presents early on. These results concur with a prior study in El Salvador where they also did not observe acute infection in donors30. Nonetheless, in most prior studies where they search for IgM anti T. gondii in donors, rates lower than 5% have been reported, internationally19-21and in Latin America17,30.

In relation to associated factors, the presence of IgG anti T. gondii in donors were related to contact with cates and domestic animals. In fact, domestic cats and felines in general, are the definitive hosts of T. gondii. They serve as reservoir and multiply the parasite in their intestine and eliminate the oocysts through feces, contaminating the soil, sand and its fur and other spaces they occupy, places where the intermediate hosts, which includes humans, are infected1. Prior studies have also associated these factors with the presence of infection in donors23,31.

We did not find an association of age, sex, household zone and occupation to infection. We also did not find an association to contact with dogs, wild animals, intake of non-potable water or intake of meat, raw or undercooked vegetables. Despite that these are fully described as factors related to toxoplasmosis3, there was no evidence in this study.

In fact, prior studies have associated sex20,23, intake of processed meat25, age and tobacco use17,23and eating grilled/barbecue, sharing cutting board between cooked and raw food, and not having the habit of hand washing before meals23. These findings can be explained by the different sociodemographic, environmental, and cultural conditions of the studied populations, as well as by the different methodologies of variable measure and analysis, research design used and strength of the studied samples.

Blood transfusion is not the most frequent or important form of toxoplasmosis transmission1,3, especially if the blood originates from a donor with past infection, meaning seropositive only to IgG. However, latent infection and the disease reactivation shown5, may suggest the presence of parasite tachyzoites or bradyzoites in donated blood, and, therefore, transmit the disease to the recipient. The infection reactivation in immunocompromised patients are the important cause of current morbidity and mortality5,13.

The current study presented some limitations. First, the research design, observational, analytical, cross-sectional, did not allow to show cause-effect relationships between the evaluated factors and the presence T. gondii infection. However, other factors studies are widely recognized as toxoplasmosis risk factors. In addition, the results open up new lines of research and serve as background for future complementary studies. Second, the reduced sample size may have affected the statistical estimators to demonstrate an association between the factors studied and toxoplasmosis.

CONCLUSION

We conclude that there is a high rate of chronic infection by T. gondii in blood donors from Hospital II-2 Tarapoto, Peru, consequently the blood transfusion transmission risk exists. Furthermore, contact with cats and domestic animals were the factors associated to the higher rate of infection. It is recommended to perform complementary studies using direct diagnostic tests of high sensitivity to demonstrate the presence of the parasite in circulating blood and assess the transfusion transmission risk. In addition, it is suggested to evaluate the possibility of including toxoplasmosis in donor screening tests, particularly in disease non-endemic regions and in donors originating from areas with high rates.

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Financing: Self-financed.

Received: April 10, 2021; Accepted: May 20, 2021

Correspondence: Heber Silva-Díaz. Address: Calle Simón Bolívar 310, Reque, Chiclayo, Perú. Telephone: (+51)965 902 275 E-mail:h.silvadiaz185@gmail.com

Author contributions: ADG and HSD participated in the study creation and design. ADG carried out the data collection. HSD performed the data analysis and interpretation of results. ADG and HSD drafted and approved the final version of the scientific article.

Conflict of interest declaration: The authors declare no conflict of interests.

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