Genetic diversity of Toxoplasma gondii in South America: occurrence, immunity, and fate of infection

RMM Brito, G de Lima Bessa, AL Bastilho… - Parasites & …, 2023 - Springer
Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular parasite with a worldwide distribution. Toxoplasma
gondii infections are of great concern for public health, and their impact is usually most …

Exploring Toxoplasma gondii´s Biology within the Intestinal Epithelium: intestinal-derived models to unravel sexual differentiation

F Sena, S Cancela, M Bollati-Fogolín… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
A variety of intestinal-derived culture systems have been developed to mimic in vivo cell
behavior and organization, incorporating different tissue and microenvironmental elements …

A ring trial to harmonize Toxoplasma gondii microsatellite typing: comparative analysis of results and recommendations for optimization

M Joeres, G Cardron, K Passebosc-Faure… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
A ring trial among five European laboratories was organized to reach consistency in
microsatellite (MS) typing of the zoonotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Three sample sets …

Genotyping of European Toxoplasma gondii strains by a new high-resolution next-generation sequencing-based method

M Joeres, P Maksimov, D Höper, S Calvelage… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose A new high-resolution next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based method was
established to type closely related European type II Toxoplasma gondii strains. Methods T …

Far-East Asian Toxoplasma isolates share ancestry with North and South/Central American recombinant lineages

F Ihara, H Kyan, Y Takashima, F Ono… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Toxoplasma gondii is a global protozoan pathogen. Clonal lineages predominate in Europe,
North America, Africa, and China, whereas highly recombinant parasites are endemic in …

Newly detected, virulent Toxoplasma gondii COUG strain causing fatal steatitis and toxoplasmosis in southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis)

MA Miller, CA Newberry, DM Sinnott… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
From February 2020 to March 2022, four southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) stranded
in California with severe protozoal steatitis and systemic toxoplasmosis. Three of the …

[HTML][HTML] Genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii isolates from México reveals non-archetypal and potentially virulent strains for mice

CP Rico-Torres, LF Valenzuela-Moreno… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Genotyping and virulence studies of Toxoplasma gondii are essential to investigate the
pathogenesis of strains circulating worldwide. In this study, eight T. gondii isolates obtained …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic diversity of Toxoplasma gondii in goats and sheep from the Northeast Region of Brazil destined for human consumption

TF Feitosa, VLR Vilela, SP Batista, SS Silva… - Current Research in …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aimed to genotype isolates of Toxoplasma gondii obtained from samples of brain,
diaphragm and heart of goats and sheep intended for human consumption in the State of …

Analytic Approaches in Genomic Epidemiological Studies of Parasitic Protozoa

T Wang, Z Zhang, Y Feng, L Xiao - … and Emerging Diseases, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) plays an important role in the advanced characterization
of pathogen transmission and is widely used in studies of major bacterial and viral diseases …

Toxoplasma gondii infection-induced host cellular DNA damage is strain-dependent and leads to the activation of the ATM-dependent homologous recombination …

L Rojas-Barón, C Hermosilla, A Taubert… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Toxoplasma gondii is a globally occurring apicomplexan parasite that infects humans and
animals. Globally, different typical and atypical haplotypes of T. gondii induce varying …