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. 2009 Apr;15(4):656-8.
doi: 10.3201/eid1504.081306.

Severe acquired toxoplasmosis caused by wild cycle of Toxoplasma gondii, French Guiana

Bernard Carme  1 , Magalie Demar, Daniel Ajzenberg, Marie Laure Dardé
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Severe acquired toxoplasmosis caused by wild cycle of Toxoplasma gondii, French Guiana

Bernard Carme et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Apr.

Abstract

From 1998 through 2006, 44 cases of severe primary toxoplasmosis were observed in French Guiana in immunocompetent adults. Toxoplasma gondii isolates exhibited an atypical multilocus genotype. Severe disease in humans may result from poor host adaptation to neotropical zoonotic strains of T. gondii circulating in a forest-based cycle.

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Transmission cycle of highly virulent strains of Toxoplasma gondii involving wild felids (definitive hosts) and their prey (intermediate hosts).
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