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Table 1 Risk factors of interest diseases

From: Associations of mental disorders and neurotropic parasitic diseases: a meta-analysis in developing and emerging countries

Disease

Risk factor

Mental disorders

• Family history

• Stressful living conditions

• Existence of a chronic disease

• Traumatisms

• Drug use

• Child abuse or neglect and/or

lack of social support [4, 5]

Neurotropic parasitic diseases

 Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT)

 Chagas disease

• Family history of HAT, living near a wetland [6]

• Economic, cultural, and human behaviour [7]

 Cysticercosis

 Toxoplasmosis

 Human Toxocariasis

• Age, home, consumption of undercooked meat, and unwashed fruit or raw vegetables [8]

• Bare hand contact with the ground or injury to animals, consumption of poorly washed vegetables [10]