Friday, May 30, 2008

Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans and animals in the United States

Int J Parasitol. 2008 Apr 11. [Epub ahead of print]

Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans and animals in the United States

Dubey JP, Jones JL.

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Animal and Natural Resources Institute, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Building 1001, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA.

This paper reviews clinical and asymptomatic Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans and other animals in the USA. Seroprevalence of T. gondii in humans and pigs is declining. Modes of transmission, epidemiology and environmental contamination with oocysts on land and sea are discussed.

PMID: 18508057 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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