Sentences with phrase «shed oocysts»

Thus, it is a reasonable assumption that most seropositive cats have already shed oocysts.»

According to Dubey and Jones, «most cats seroconvert after they have shed oocysts.

As recently as 2008, though, Dubey was explaining that, based on his own previous research, «most cats only shed oocysts for about one week in their life.»

According to Dubey and Jones, «Most cats seroconvert after they have shed oocysts.

Since cats who have been infected shed oocysts only once (repeated shedding has only been seen in a laboratory setting in cats with severely compromised immune systems), sterilized cats in managed colonies that have the parasite are no longer producing the oocysts.

In fact, «testing positive» is not a useful measure of a cat's ability to infect other animals or people; it's merely an indication that antibodies are present in the cat's blood — to be expected after they shed oocysts.

In addition, lots of dogs, cats, puppies and kittens are infected and are shedding oocysts despite having no clinical signs of infection.

(This process, called «shedding oocysts,» typically occurs only once during a cat's lifetime, and lasts only about a week.

In the U.S., the prevalence of cats who are actively shedding oocysts is quite low — approximately 1 percent, according to the Companion Animal Parasite Council.

Not exact matches

Cats are the only known host in which this parasite reproduces; cats shed the parasites» eggs, called oocysts, in their feces.

When the cat gets infected, the early stages involve an intestinal form where the contagious oocysts are shed in feces but the cat may or may not have any diarrhea.

Since incredible numbers of oocysts are shed from infected pets, the environmental contamination with coccidia oocysts is severe.

Coccidia spread when oocysts are shed in the stool of infected pets and then the oocysts are consumed later by another susceptible dog or cat.

Coccidia are shed in an infected dog's feces in a protected form called an oocyst, which is resistant to damage and can survive in the environment for extended periods of time.

The oocyst shedding leads to the other mode of infection for people and other warm - blooded animals: consuming feces that contain the oocysts, such as by eating a plant with feces residue or by gardening and not washing your hands before eating.

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.

Increased odds of oocyst shedding were detected in bobcats and unmanaged feral cats.

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.

False Statement: Even if a cat is infected with Toxoplasma, it typically only sheds the disease - spreading oocysts for a few weeks.

False Statement: «Most Cases of Toxoplasmosis Stem from Undercooked Food, Not Cats — Catch and kill advocates sometimes argue for killing feral cats because they can transmit toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disease that spreads via Toxoplasma oocysts shed in the feces of an infected animal.»

Although mature dogs may shed the infective stage of the parasite (oocyst) from time to time in their stool, it almost never causes disease symptoms in these animals.

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.

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.

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

Because of their fastidious nature, the passing of non-infective oocysts, and the short duration of oocyst shedding, direct contact with cats is not thought to be a primary risk for human infection.»

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

Cats are the only animals that shed this ineffective stage of this protozoan called an oocyst.

Oocysts must sporulate before becoming infective, therefore are not infectious until 48 hours post shedding.