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.