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Prevalence and genetic characterization of Toxoplasma gondii in bats in Myanmar.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jun 2013
Sun Hongchao, Wang Yiyin, Zhang Yingguang, Ge Wei, Zhang Fuqiang, He Biao, Li Zuosheng, Fan Quanshui, Wang Wei, Tu Changchun, Li Jiping, Liu Quan
Abstract excerpt
We detected Toxoplasma gondii in 29.3% (95% confidence interval [CI], 25.5% to 33.1%) of 550 insectivorous bats collected in Myanmar. The genotyping of these positive samples revealed they were closely related to or belong to clonal type I, which is highly virulent in mice, showing that these bats are potential reservoirs for T. gondii transmission.
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