Latent Toxoplasma gondii Infection Does Not Modulate Immune Aging in a Cross-Sectional Working-Age Population Study
Peter Bröde, Maren Claus, Stephan Getzmann, Klaus Golka, Jan G. Hengstler, Jörg Reinders, Edmund Wascher, Carsten Watzl, Patrick D. Gajewski · 2025
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Peter Bröde and co-authors test if a quiet cat-borne germ speeds immune aging in working adults, in a study from 2025. The germ, Toxoplasma gondii, sleeps in near a third of folk and keeps a low fire lit. Some feared that fire ages the guard force fast.
In a Dortmund pool of 584 souls aged 20 to 70, more than one in four bore the germ's marks, and marks rose with age. A raw immune-age score did sit higher in the marked, who were also the older. That tangle is the trap: age drives both. The team's verdict, in frame and sum, is that the germ does not steer immune aging in this crew. A clean null, they note, still clears a fear from the list.
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| CREATOR | Peter Bröde, Maren Claus, Stephan Getzmann, Klaus Golka, Jan G. Hengstler, Jörg Reinders, Edmund Wascher, Carsten Watzl, Patrick D. Gajewski |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |