Immune response in men patients infected with toxoplasmosis

Abstract

The primary aim of this study was to determine the differential count of white blood cells and the serum levels of (CCR2 and testosterone) in patients with Toxoplasmosis and the healthy group. The study was conducted on 260 Males suspected of Toxoplasmosis ages ranging from 20-50 years old. All these cases were examined by measuring Toxo IgM and IgG serum levels, who attended AL-Hakeem hospital, and (30) healthy males as the control group, collected randomly from AL-Najaf province, these samples were collected from March 2023 to August 2023. Any patient was using the drug or undergoing disease removal from the current study. The present study revealed the numbers and percentage of infected patients fifty out of 260 (19.23%) male patients. The current study was conducted on the effect of WBCs (Monocyte, Lymphocyte and Neutrophil) in patients infected with Toxoplasmosis. The results showed that high concentrations of Monocyte and Neutrophil (9.560± 0.244 ×103 µL) (10.65± 0.13%) (72.48± 0.575%) respectively for the patient, and (6.660 ± 0.067 ×103 µL) (6.933 ± 0.064 %) (52.50 ± 0.252 %) respectively for compared to the control group. However, no significant changes were recorded for lymphocytes (34.33± 0.881%) in patients infected with Toxoplasmosis compared to the control group. The current study revealed that the concentration of (testosterone, CCR2) inpatients infected with Toxoplasmosis was a significant increase (P<0.05) compared to the control group. The current study has concluded that infection with Toxoplasmosis may be a risk factor. A chronic T. gondii infection is associated with variations in levels of serum hormones for can result in inducted behavioural alterations and these variations may influence the immune system by (Testosterone, CCR2).