Toxoplasmosis
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PATHOGENS
- Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan.
- Environmental exposure to oocysts in cat feces or food exposure, i.e., undercooked meat containing tissue cysts or contaminated raw shellfish, leads to infection.[12]
- Infection lifelong; disease most often due to reactivation of latent tissue cysts. Acute toxoplasmosis, encephalitis or disseminated disease, less often identified.[5]
- No person-to–person transmission.
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PATHOGENS
- Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan.
- Environmental exposure to oocysts in cat feces or food exposure, i.e., undercooked meat containing tissue cysts or contaminated raw shellfish, leads to infection.[12]
- Infection lifelong; disease most often due to reactivation of latent tissue cysts. Acute toxoplasmosis, encephalitis or disseminated disease, less often identified.[5]
- No person-to–person transmission.
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Last updated: January 13, 2021
Citation
Spacek, Lisa A. "Toxoplasmosis." Johns Hopkins HIV Guide, 2021. Johns Hopkins Guides, www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_HIV_Guide/545207/all/Toxoplasmosis.
Spacek LA. Toxoplasmosis. Johns Hopkins HIV Guide. 2021. https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_HIV_Guide/545207/all/Toxoplasmosis. Accessed March 30, 2023.
Spacek, L. A. (2021). Toxoplasmosis. In Johns Hopkins HIV Guide https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_HIV_Guide/545207/all/Toxoplasmosis
Spacek LA. Toxoplasmosis [Internet]. In: Johns Hopkins HIV Guide. ; 2021. [cited 2023 March 30]. Available from: https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_HIV_Guide/545207/all/Toxoplasmosis.
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