Science news articles about 'toxoplasma gondii'

Researchers provide insight into how Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite of people and other animals, triggers an immune response in its host. The report will appear online on January 19th in The ...

Scientists are tracing the family tree of Toxoplasma gondii, one of the most widespread parasites of warm-blooded vertebrates. Understanding how T. gondii has evolved and disseminated will help ...

... presented today at the 108th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston. Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite which causes toxoplasmosis, considered to be the third ...

... of conventionally raised pigs infected with the bacterial pathogen. The presence of the Toxoplasma gondii parasite was detected in 6.8 percent of antibiotic-free pigs, compared to 1.1 ...

... offers a possible target for new drugs, but it could also lead to a preventative vaccine – for animals. The Toxoplasma gondii parasite can infect most animals and birds, but it reproduces in cats, ...

... in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Toxoplasmosis, caused by Toxoplasma gondii, is the most common parasitic disease found in humans around the world. Infection can cause ...

... marine snails are at a higher risk of exposure to Toxoplasma gondii, a potentially deadly protozoal pathogen, ... respective final hosts, cats (T. gondii) and opossums (S. neurona), which then shed new ...

... have serious effects on a human fetus if contracted by a mother. The agent that causes the disease, Toxoplasma gondii, is of strong interest to scientists because it is easy to manipulate in the lab ...

... Roos, PhD, the work was broadened to include Toxoplasma gondii, which causes a parasitic disease called ... people living in the U.S. carry T. gondii. "We always suspected that enzymes called proteases ...

... feat surmounts a major hurdle for targeting genes in Toxoplasma gondii, an infection model whose close ... to deliver life-long immunity to T. gondii," Fox says. "So our work has been recently focused at ...

... separate cell types, they now can inject a chemically modified gene from the one-celled organism Toxoplasma gondii and activate it in only one cell type within a tissue. Only newly generated RNA in ...

... bacteria present in the human gut help initiate the body's defense mechanisms against Toxoplasma gondii, the parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasmosis is generally a mild infection, but ...