Particularly neglected in countries with other challenges: High Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in pregnant women in Kabul, Afghanistan, while a low proportion know about the parasite

• Sayed Hussain Mosawi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sayedhussain.mosawi@ghalib.edu.af (SHM); pijo@ssi.dk (PJ)

  Affiliations Medical Sciences Research Center, Ghalib University, Kabul, Afghanistan, Faculty of Medicine, Khatam Al Nabieen University, Ghazni, Afghanistan, Department of Infectious Diseases, Afghanistan National Charity Organization for Special Diseases, Kabul, Afghanistan

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• Zahra Zarghona,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Khatam Al Nabieen University, Kabul, Afghanistan

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• Abdolhossein Dalimi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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• Pikka Jokelainen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sayedhussain.mosawi@ghalib.edu.af (SHM); pijo@ssi.dk (PJ)

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology, Department of Bacteria, Parasites & Fungi, Infectious Disease Preparedness, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3035-5094

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• Ahmad Hosseini Safa,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Sciences Research Center, Ghalib University, Kabul, Afghanistan, Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mohammad Reza Mohammadi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Sciences Research Center, Ghalib University, Kabul, Afghanistan

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• Erfan Javanmardi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Sciences Research Center, Ghalib University, Kabul, Afghanistan

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• Mohammad Baqer Basirat

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Laboratory Department, French Medical Institute for Children, Kabul, Afghanistan

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