Toxoplasma gondii: transmission, diagnosis and prevention
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Toxoplasmosis is one of the most common parasitic infections of man and other warm-blooded animals and can cause blindness and mental retardation in congenitally infected children and devastating disease in immunocompromised individuals.About:
This article is published in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.The article was published on 2002-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1005 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Toxoplasma gondii & Toxoplasmosis.read more
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Toxoplasmosis snapshots: Global status of Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence and implications for pregnancy and congenital toxoplasmosis
TL;DR: The authors sought to evaluate the current global status of T. gondii seroprevalence and its correlations with risk factors, environmental and socioeconomic parameters, and recognise specific risk factors related to seropositivity; however, such risk factors are not reported systematically.
Monitoring of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) and identification of human pathogenic VTEC types 1 Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Biological Hazards
Olivier Andreoletti,Herbert Budka,Sava Buncic,Pierre Colin,John D. Collins,John W. Griffin,Arie Havelaar,James Hope,Günter Klein,Hilde Kruse,Antonio Martínez López,James McLauchlin,Christophe Nguyen-The,Birgit Noerrung,Miguel Prieto Maradona,Terence Roberts,Ivar Vågsholm,Emmanuel Vanopdenbosch +17 more
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Soil protists: a fertile frontier in soil biology research.
Stefan Geisen,Edward A. D. Mitchell,Sina M. Adl,Michael Bonkowski,Micah Dunthorn,Flemming Ekelund,Leonardo D. Fernández,Alexandre Jousset,Valentyna Krashevska,David Singer,Frederick W. Spiegel,Julia Walochnik,Enrique Lara +12 more
TL;DR: An overview of the enormous morphological, taxonomical and functional diversity of soil protists is provided, and current challenges and opportunities in soil protistology are discussed.
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Fatal Outbreak of Human Toxoplasmosis along the Maroni River: Epidemiological, Clinical, and Parasitological Aspects
Magalie Demar,Daniel Ajzenberg,Danielle Maubon,Félix Djossou,Dayanand Panchoe,Widya Punwasi,Nasser Valery,Christian Peneau,Jean-Louis Daigre,Christine Aznar,Benoit Cottrelle,Laurence Terzan,Marie-Laure Dardé,Bernard Carme +13 more
TL;DR: Molecular analysis demonstrated that identical isolates of only 1 atypical strain were responsible for at least 5 of the 11 cases of toxoplasmosis in the outbreak in Patam, a Surinamese village near the French Guianan border.
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Integrative Genomic Approaches Highlight a Family of Parasite-Specific Kinases that Regulate Host Responses
Lucia Peixoto,Feng Chen,Omar S. Harb,Paul H. Davis,Daniel P. Beiting,Catie Small Brownback,Dinkorma Ouloguem,David S. Roos +7 more
TL;DR: Transgenic parasite ROP38 downregulates host genes associated with MAPK signaling and the control of apoptosis and proliferation, highlighting the value of integrative genomic approaches in prioritizing candidates for functional validation.
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Toxoplasma gondii: from animals to humans
TL;DR: Recent epidemiological data on T. gondii, hypotheses on the major routes of transmission to humans in different populations, and preventive measures that may reduce the risk of contracting a primary infection during pregnancy are presented.
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Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and Newborn Infant
TL;DR: Infectious diseases of the fetus and newborn infant, Infectious diseases in the fetus as mentioned in this paper, infection of the newborn infant and the mother, infection of a fetus and infection of an infant.
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Toxoplasmosis of Animals and Man
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Toxoplasmic Encephalitis in AIDS
TL;DR: This commentary comprises an update of their initial review of T. gondii and a presentation of the current approaches to diagnosing and managing toxoplasmic encephalitis in HIV-infected patients.
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Direct and sensitive detection of a pathogenic protozoan, Toxoplasma gondii, by polymerase chain reaction.
TL;DR: A combination of sensitivity and specificity should make detection of the B1 gene based on polymerase chain reaction amplification a very useful method for diagnosis of toxoplasmosis both in immunocompromised hosts and in congenitally infected fetuses.