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Recent epidemiologic and clinical importance of Toxoplasma gondii infections in marine mammals: 2009-2020.
Veterinary parasitology - 1 Dec 2020
Dubey Jitender P, Murata Fernando H A, Cerqueira-Cézar Camila K, Kwok Oliver C H, Grigg Michael E
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Toxoplasma gondii infections are common in humans and animals worldwide. T. gondii causes mortality in several species of marine mammals, including threatened Southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris) and endangered Hawaiian monk seals (Monachus schauinslandi). Marine mammals are now considered sentinels for environmental exposure to protozoan agents contaminating marine waters, including T. gondii oocysts. Marine...
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