Sentences with phrase «gondii oocysts»

She gave birth prematurely due to toxoplasmosis infection — the moose had browsed an area contaminated by «community» cats and its tissues were infected with Toxoplasma gondii oocysts.

Indeed, as cats increasingly contaminate public areas with T. gondii oocysts it will become progressively more difficult to avoid exposure.»

Your hands would be dissolved into a digestible pulp long before you could kill the Toxoplasma gondii oocysts.

They wanted to find out if dogs could possibly transmit cat - shed Toxoplasma gondii oocysts.

dopt = Abstract & holding = f1000, f1000m, isrctn It is interesting to note: That these Toxoplasma gondii oocysts shed by cats can even survive the hydrochloric stomach acids for the duration that they remain in a mammal's digestive tract.

This parasite is also killing off rare and endangered marine - mammals along all coastlines and inland river - otters from cats» T. gondii oocysts in run - off from the land, the oocysts surviving even in saltwater.

Massie determined through laboratory experimentation that about two - thirds of northern anchovies who were exposed to Toxoplasma gondii oocysts became infected.

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Toxoplasma gondii is best known for the threat it poses to the fetuses of pregnant women exposed to the protozoan's eggs, or oocysts, when cleaning their pets» litter boxes.

In 2013, researchers reported that unmanaged «feral» cats are 4.8 times more likely to be exposed to the T. gondii parasite than managed colony cats, and 11.8 times more likely to shed infectious spore - like oocysts in their feces.

Lafferty started out believing from review of previous published literature that «infectious disease was preventing the recovery of sea otters, and the most likely source of infection of Toxoplasma gondii was terrestrial runoff containing oocysts defecated by cats,» but when he and colleagues tagged 135 California sea otters in 2009 and followed them for four years, they found that «Counter to expectations, sea otters from unpopulated stretches of coastline,» around Big Sur, are less healthy and more exposed to parasites than city - associated otters,» from the Monterey Bay area, who have more exposure to fecal matter from cats.

Nonetheless, the data reveal that ownership of a cat is not necessary to acquire T. gondii, because it has been shown that oocyst exposure is not always associated with cat ownership or with recognition of risk factors.

The parasite Toxoplasma gondii is shed in cat feces, and the oocysts (similar to fertilized eggs) can remain infective in the soil for long periods.

Herrmann, D.C., et al., «Atypical Toxoplasma gondii genotypes identified in oocysts shed by cats in Germany.»