Environmental transmission of Toxoplasma gondii, a global zoonotic parasite, adversely
impacts human and animal health. Toxoplasma is a significant cause of mortality in …

Although the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is ubiquitous in birds and mammals
worldwide, the full suite of hosts and transmission routes is not completely understood …

Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic parasite that can cause severe morbidity and mortality in
warm-blooded animals, including marine mammals such as sea otters. Free-ranging cats …

Background Environmental transmission of the zoonotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which
is shed only by felids, poses risks to human and animal health in temperate and tropical …

Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that originated in the Amazon. Felids (mammals
in the cat family) are the only definitive hosts. These animals shed large numbers of …

Pathogens entering the marine environment as pollutants exhibit a spatial signature driven
by their transport mechanisms. The sea otter (Enhydra lutris), a marine animal which lives …

Macroecological approaches can provide valuable insight into the epidemiology of globally
distributed, multi-host pathogens. Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan that infects any warm …

Despite extensive worldwide surveillance in populations of both people and wildlife,
relatively little is known about Toxoplasma gondii ecology in the circumpolar north. Many …

Toxoplasma gondii affects a wide variety of hosts including threatened southern sea otters
(Enhydra lutris nereis) which serve as sentinels for the detection of the parasite's …

Oocyst shedding in domestic and wild felids is a critical yet understudied topic in
Toxoplasma gondii ecology and epidemiology that shapes human and animal disease …