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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii.[1] The parasite infects most warm-blooded animals, including humans, but the primary host is the felid (cat) family. Animals are infected by eating infected meat, by ingestion of faeces of a cat that has itself recently been infected, or by transmission from mother to fetus. Cats have been shown as a major reservoir of this infection. [2] While this is true, contact with infected undercooked meat seems to be a more important cause of human infection in many countries.
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