Parasitic diseases have an enormous health, social and economic impact and are a particular problem in tropical regions of the world. Diseases caused by protozoa and …
Found worldwide from Alaska to Australasia, Toxoplasma gondii knows no geographic boundaries. The protozoan is the source of one of the most common parasitic infections in …
JP Dubey, JL Jones - International journal for parasitology, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper reviews clinical and asymptomatic Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans and other animals in the USA. Seroprevalence of T. gondii in humans and pigs is declining …
Diseases resulting from zoonotic transmission of parasites are common. Humans become infected through food, water, soil and close contact with animals. Most parasitic zoonoses …
Background Common infectious pathogens have been associated with psychiatric disorders, self-violence and risk-taking behavior. Methods This case-control study reviews …
Recent progress in the field of wildlife disease ecology demonstrates that infectious disease plays a crucial role in the lives of wild animals. Parasites and pathogens should be …
A Parlog, D Schlüter, IR Dunay - Parasite immunology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The zoonotic pathogen Toxoplasma gondii infects over 30% of the human population. The intracellular parasite can persist lifelong in the CNS within neurons modifying their function …
J Flegr - Journal of experimental Biology, 2013 - journals.biologists.com
The parasitic protozoan Toxoplasma gondii infects about one-third of the population of developed countries. The life-long presence of dormant stages of this parasite in the brain …
I Barber, NJ Dingemanse - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The ecological factors responsible for the evolution of individual differences in animal personality (consistent individual differences in the same behaviour across time and …