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The current study aimed to determine the seroprevalence of <jats:italic>Toxoplasma<\/jats:italic> infection among individuals with intellectual disabilities in Hormozgan province, southern Iran.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The study population was 117 individuals with intellectual disabilities. Venous blood (3\u00a0mL) was taken from each subject. A commercial ELISA kit was used to determine anti\u2010<jats:italic>Toxoplasma<\/jats:italic> IgG antibodies.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Of 117 recruited subjects, 55 (47.0%) were men and 62 (53.0%) were women. The mean age of participants was 27.6 (\u00b112.31) years. Out of 117 studied subjects, 76 had severe and 41 had profound intellectual disabilities. Anti\u2010<jats:italic>Toxoplasma<\/jats:italic> IgG antibodies were detected in the sera of 35 out of 117 (29.9%) individuals. Seropositivity to toxoplasmosis was significantly higher in severe than in individuals with profound intellectual disabilities (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a00.05). There was no statistically significant association between <jats:italic>Toxoplasma<\/jats:italic> infection and age, sex and duration of residency in the rehabilitation centre.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The findings of this study indicate that the prevalence of <jats:italic>Toxoplasma<\/jats:italic> in people with intellectual disabilities is not much different from other groups of the community.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/jir.13041","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,2]],"date-time":"2023-05-02T10:19:30Z","timestamp":1683022770000},"page":"746-752","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis among individuals with intellectual disability in Hormozgan Province, southern Iran"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"67","author":[{"given":"M.","family":"Omidian","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine Shiraz University of Medical Sciences  Shiraz Iran"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"F. 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