“…Neosporosis was already reproduced in gerbils in different experimental conditions (DUBEY & LINDSAY, 2000;GONDIM et al, 2001;RAMAMOORTHY et al, 2005;KANG et al, 2009;TOSCAN et al, 2012;TONIN et al, 2013;BOTTARI et al, 2014). Among these studies, acute infection was commonly performed by intraperitoneal inoculation of tachyzoites (CUDDON et al, 1992;RAMAMOORTHY et al, 2005;KANG et al, 2009;TOSCAN et al, 2012) and, eventually, by oral inoculation of oocysts (DUBEY & LINDSAY 2000). Studies on N. caninum pathogenesis in gerbils are useful for development of control strategies, as vaccines or drugs, for canine and bovine neosporosis (KANG et al, 2009).…”