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Genetic analyses of Chinese isolates of Toxoplasma gondii reveal a new genotype with high virulence to murine hosts.
Veterinary parasitology - 15 Jul 2017
Gao J-M, Xie Y-T, Xu Z-S, Chen H, Hide G, Yang T-B, Shen J-L, Lai D-H, Lun Z-R
Abstract excerpt
A great deal of evidence demonstrates that a strongly clonal population structure of Toxoplasma gondii strains exists in humans and animals in North America and Europe, while the strains from South America are genetically separate and more diverse. Potential differences in virulence between different strains mean that an understanding of strain diversity is important to human and animal health. However, to date,...
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