A Comprehensive Review of Toxoplasmosis: Serious Threat to Human Health
Aswin Rafif Khairullah,
Shendy Canadya Kurniawan,
Agus Widodo
et al.
Abstract:Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii. Despite infecting a major fraction of the global population, T. gondii rarely results in clinically significant disease. Cats are the only known definitive host for this parasite, which sheds millions of oocysts in its feces every day, which then sporulate and become infective in the environment.
This comprehensive review article aims to explain the etiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, transmission, clinical symptoms, diagnosis, risk fa… Show more
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