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A human origin type II strain of Toxoplasma gondii causing severe encephalitis in mice.
Microbes and infection - 1 Jul 2006
Djurković-Djaković Olgica, Klun Ivana, Khan Asis, Nikolić Aleksandra, Knezević-Usaj Slavica, Bobić Branko, Sibley L David
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Despite its capacity for sexual reproduction and global distribution, Toxoplasma gondii has a highly clonal structure, with the majority of isolates belonging to three distinct clonal types. Congenital toxoplasmosis has been associated with type I and type II strains. We here present the first characterization of a T. gondii strain (BGD1) from South-East Europe, isolated from the umbilical blood of a 24-week-old...
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