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Toxoplasma gondii infections in cats from Paraná, Brazil: seroprevalence, tissue distribution, and biologic and genetic characterization of isolates.
The Journal of parasitology - 1 Aug 2004
Dubey J P, Navarro I T, Sreekumar C, Dahl E, Freire R L, Kawabata H H, Vianna M C B, Kwok O C H, Shen S K, Thulliez P, Lehmann T
Abstract excerpt
Cats are important in the epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii because they are the only hosts that can excrete environmentally resistant oocysts. The prevalence of T. gondii was determined in 58 domestic cats from 51 homes from Santa Isabel do Ivai, Parana State, Brazil where a water-associated outbreak of acute toxoplasmosis had occurred in humans. Antibodies to T. gondii were found with the modified agglutination...
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