Infections by the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii are widely prevalent in humans and
animals in Brazil. The burden of clinical toxoplasmosis in humans is considered to be very …

Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite of birds and mammals. Cats are the only definitive host and
thus the only source of infective oocysts, but other mammals and birds can develop tissue …

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 …

Humans become infected with Toxoplasma gondii mainly by ingesting uncooked meat
containing viable tissue cysts or by ingesting food or water contaminated with oocysts from …

Animals found in close proximity to humans in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs)
harbor many pathogens capable of infecting humans, transmissible via their feces. Contact …

Cats are popular as pets worldwide because they are easy to care for and provide
companionship that enriches the lives of human beings. Little attention has been focused on …

It was generally believed that Toxoplasma gondii had a clonal population structure with
three predominant lineages, namely types I, II and III. This was largely based on genotyping …

Recent studies found that isolates of Toxoplasma gondii from Brazil were biologically and
genetically different from those in North America and Europe. However, to date only a small …

Objective—To estimate the analytic sensitivity of microscopic detection of Toxoplasma
gondii oocysts and the environmental loading of T gondii oocysts on the basis of prevalence …

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the re-shedding of T. gondii oocysts in cats fed
tissue cysts of homologous and heterologous strains 12, 24 and 36 months after the first …