Infections by the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii are widely prevalent in humans and
animals in Brazil. The burden of clinical toxoplasmosis in humans is considered to be very …

Chickens are considered one of the most important hosts in the epidemiology of
Toxoplasma gondii infection because they are an efficient source of infection for cats that …

Toxoplasma gondii has a complex life cycle with multiple forms. Intermediate hosts such as
humans are infected by sporozoites in oocysts or bradyzoites in pseudocysts whereas the …

The majority of Toxoplasma gondii strains from a variety of human and animal sources have
been grouped into three highly clonal but closely related lineages. The low occurrence of …

Toxoplasma gondii infections are common in humans and animals worldwide. Domestic free-
range chickens (Gallus domesticus) are excellent sentinels of environmental contamination …

Cats are important in the epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii because they are the only
hosts that can excrete environmentally resistant oocysts. The prevalence of T. gondii was …

Toxoplasma gondii causes toxoplasmosis with a global prevalence in the world. A large
proportion of human illness is most frequently associated with consuming raw and …

The prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in 84 free-range chickens (34 from the northern Pará
state, and 50 from Rio Grande do Sul, the southern state) from Brazil, South America was …

Polymerase chain reaction–restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR–RFLP) at eight
independent loci was used to determine the types (I, II or III) lineage of 20 Toxoplasma …

Multilocus DNA sequencing has identified a nonarchetypal strain of Toxoplasma gondii as
the causal agent of a waterborne outbreak in Brazil in 2001. The strain, isolated from a water …