Sentences with phrase «more oocysts»

The more cats are allowed to eat birds and rodents, and defecate outside, the more oocysts will be in the environment to infect humans and other animals.

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They lie in the environment and eventually mature into a more developed oocyst that can re-infect the cat.

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.

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