A systematic review and meta-analysis of Toxoplasma gondii infection among the Mexican population

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Table 3 Crude and weighted Toxoplasma infection prevalence in low and high risk groups of Mexican population

Population studied	Number of studies	Number of cases	Positive cases	A/Nx100 Crude prevalence (%)	Weighed prevalence (%)	CI 95% Lower-upper limit (%)	References
Low Risk Groups
General population	90	61536	16855	27.39	20.26	18.78-19.36	[16–24, 34, 51, 52, 55, 56, 58, 59]
Pregnant Women	12	2595	573	22.08	15.62	14.30-16.93	[35–43]
Blood Donors	4	1123	278	24.76	17.035	15.03-19.03	[5, 46–48]
Patients with comorbidity	7	689	88	12.77	12.27	9.83-14.72	[19, 51, 59]
High Risk Groups
Women with miscarriages	3	2525	910	36.03	35.96	34.1-37.83	[39, 44, 45]
Immunocompromised patients	7	627	179	28.54	20.2	17.35-23.05	[19, 47, 49–52]
Mentally-ill patients	4	527	203	38.52	37.24	33.24-41.26	[20, 53–55]
Other risk groups	5	501	176	35.13	21.88	19.0-24.76	[6, 7, 57, 58]
Total	132	70,123	19,262

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