As wild and domestic felids are the only recognized hosts capable of shedding Toxoplasma
oocysts into the environment, otter infection suggests land - to - sea pathogen transmission.
Not exact matches
They lie in the environment and eventually mature
into a more developed
oocyst that can re-infect the cat.
The
oocysts then hatch in the animal, travel through the intestine and migrate
into the muscle where the parasite forms cysts.
The
oocysts embed in the host's brain and the species can only reproduce if it makes it
into another cat.
Your hands would be dissolved
into a digestible pulp long before you could kill the Toxoplasma gondii
oocysts.
All the
oocysts in soil and drinking water and the
oocysts that find their way
into the meat we eat are from cats.
Once the
oocysts reach the small intestine, they release the organisms
into the gut, where they embed themselves
into the cells lining the intestinal wall.