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Communication between Toxoplasma gondii and its host: impact on parasite growth, development, immune evasion, and virulence.
APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica - 1 May 2009
Blader Ira J, Saeij Jeroen P
Abstract excerpt
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite that can infect most warm-blooded animals and cause severe and life-threatening disease in developing fetuses and in immune-compromised patients. Although Toxoplasma was discovered over 100 years ago, we are only now beginning to appreciate the importance of the role that parasite modulation of its host has on parasite growth, bradyzoite...
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