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Putting cat lovers on notice: Toxoplasma gondii is here to control your brain…or is it? Kochanowsky and Koshy shine the spotlight on this notorious pathogen.
Joshua A, Kochanowsky, Anita A, Koshy
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The dual role of small rodents and domestic cats in the natural course of toxoplasma infection has been known for some 25 years,1 but the nature of the interplay between the protozoan and its human host remains elusive. Nowhere is this more evident than in ocular toxoplasmosis.
J, Hay, G N, Dutton
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Toxoplasma-proximal and distal control by GBPs in human macrophages. [PDF]
Human guanylate binding proteins (GBPs) are key players of interferon-gamma (IFNγ)-induced cell intrinsic defense mechanisms targeting intracellular pathogens.
Barbara Clough (3357824) +4 more
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Neuroretinitis is an inflammatory condition with rapid unilateral vision loss, optic disc edema, and macular star formation. While neuroretinitis is commonly due to infectious causes such as <i>Bartonella henselae</i>, neuroretinitis due to toxoplasmosis is uncommon.
Christine Hsu +2 more
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Incidence of symptomatic toxoplasma eye disease: aetiology and public health implications. [PDF]
Ocular disease is the commonest disabling consequence of toxoplasma infection. Incidence and lifetime risk of ocular symptoms were determined by ascertaining affected patients in a population-based, active reporting study involving ophthalmologists ...
Murray, PI +24 more
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Changing climate-changing pathogens: Toxoplasma gondii in North-Western Europe [PDF]
In this review, we describe the effects of global climate change for one specific pathogen: the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. It is postulated that an increase of T.
Meerburg, B.G. +3 more
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Murine Gbp1 and Gbp2 are ubiquitinated independent of Toxoplasma gondii infection
Objective The intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii can invade any nucleated cell residing inside a parasitophorous vacuole (PV). Upon infection, the cytokine interferon gamma (IFNγ) is produced and elicits host defence mechanisms able to recognise ...
Vesela Encheva +3 more
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Vaccines against toxoplasma gondii : challenges and opportunities [PDF]
Development of vaccines against Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans is of high priority, given the high burden of disease in some areas of the world like South America, and the lack of effective drugs with few adverse effects.
Craig W Roberts +10 more
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T cell receptor–major histocompatibility complex (TCR–MHC) affinities span a wide range in a polyclonal T cell response, yet it is undefined how affinity shapes long-term properties of CD8 T cells during chronic infection with persistent antigen.
Anna Sanecka +5 more
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Serological and Molecular Survey of Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Hemodialysis Patients with Chronic Renal Disease in Zahedan, Iran [PDF]
Background: Toxoplasma gondii is one of the most prevalent zoonotic opportunistic parasitic infections in the world. The aim of this study was to examine chronic and acute toxoplasmosis molecularly and serologically in Hemodialysis patients.Methods: A ...
Hadi Mirahmadi +5 more
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