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Forward Genetics in Toxoplasma gondii Reveals a Family of Rhoptry Kinases That Mediates Pathogenesis
23 May 2009
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Toxoplasma gondii is a widespread protozoan parasite that commonly infects domestic, wild, and companion animals (8). Like related tissue coccidians, T. gondii has a complex life cycle alternating between a sexual cycle, which occurs only within enterocytes of the small intestines of cats (all members of the Felidae appear to be susceptible), and asexual propagation in a variety of warm-blooded vertebrate hosts...
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