Severe acquired toxoplasmosis caused by wild cycle of Toxoplasma gondii, French Guiana

From 1998 through 2006, 44 cases of severe primary toxoplasmosis were observed in French Guiana in immunocompetent adults. Toxoplasma gondii isolates exhibited an atypical multilocus genotype. Severe disease in humans may result from poor host adaptation to neotropical zoonotic strains of T. gondii...

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Published in:Emerging infectious diseases 2009-04, Vol.15 (4), p.656-658
Main Authors: Carme, Bernard, Demar, Magalie, Ajzenberg, Daniel, Dardé, Marie Laure
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acute Disease
Adult
Amazonia
Animals
Animals, Wild
Animals, Wild - parasitology
atypical strains
Causes of
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
Communicable Diseases, Emerging - epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging - transmission
Diagnosis
Disease Outbreaks
Dispatch
Distribution
epidemiology
Felidae
Felidae - parasitology
French Guiana
French Guiana - epidemiology
Humans
Life Sciences
Mammals
Mammals - parasitology
Physiological aspects
Santé publique et épidémiologie
severe toxoplasmosis
Toxoplasma
Toxoplasma - genetics
Toxoplasma - isolation & purification
Toxoplasma - pathogenicity
Toxoplasma gondii
Toxoplasmosis
Toxoplasmosis - epidemiology
Toxoplasmosis - transmission
wild cycle French Guiana
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Summary:From 1998 through 2006, 44 cases of severe primary toxoplasmosis were observed in French Guiana in immunocompetent adults. Toxoplasma gondii isolates exhibited an atypical multilocus genotype. Severe disease in humans may result from poor host adaptation to neotropical zoonotic strains of T. gondii circulating in a forest-based cycle.
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid1504.081306