Congenital Toxoplasmosis in Cattle
- Authors: Thais Rabelo dos Santos1, Maerle Oliveira Maia2, Jancarlo Ferreira Gomes3, Celso Tetsuo Nagase Suzuki4, Alvimar Jose da Costa5, Katia Denise Saraiva Bresciani6
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View Affiliations Hide Affiliations1 UFVJM, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Unai, Minas Gerais , Brasil 2 UFVJM, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Unai, Minas Gerais , Brasil 3 UFVJM, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Unai, Minas Gerais , Brasil 4 UFVJM, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Unai, Minas Gerais , Brasil 5 UFVJM, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Unai, Minas Gerais , Brasil 6 UFVJM, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Unai, Minas Gerais , Brasil
- Source: Congenital Toxoplasmosis in Humans and Domestic Animals , pp 105-113
- Publication Date: May 2018
- Language: English
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Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite of the phylum Apicomplexa. It is an obligate intracellular protozoan that affects humans and a diverse range of vertebrate hosts. The infection of herbivores occurs primarily through ingestion of oocysts in food and contaminated soils and water. Natural infection by T. gondii in cattle was originally reported in Ohio, USA, which also reported the first experimental infection by this protozoan in cattle. The congenital transmission of T. gondii in cattle was originally described in 1980. The congenital transmission may frequently be affected by the pathogenicity of the T. gondii strain and this zoonotic parasite is example of endogenous and exogenous transplacental infection, which emphasizes the need for greater precision in describing field or experimental research that describes infection passing from cows to fetuses, as well as the actual importance of cattle, in different countries, on the epidemiology of toxoplasmosis.
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