All about toxoplasmosis in cats: the last decade.


Journal

Veterinary parasitology
ISSN: 1873-2550
Titre abrégé: Vet Parasitol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 7602745

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Jul 2020
Historique:
received: 30 03 2020
revised: 17 05 2020
accepted: 18 05 2020
pubmed: 10 7 2020
medline: 2 4 2021
entrez: 10 7 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Toxoplasma gondii infections are common in humans and animals worldwide. Toxoplasmosis continues to be of public health concern. Cats (domestic and wild felids) are the most important host in the epidemiology of toxoplasmosis because they are the only species that can excrete the environmentally resistant oocysts in feces. Cats can excrete millions of oocysts and a single cat can spread infection to many hosts. The present paper summarizes information on prevalence, persistence of infection, clinical signs, and diagnosis of T. gondii infections in domestic and wild cats for the past decade. Special emphasis is paid to genetic diversity of T. gondii isolates from cats. Review of literature indicates that a unique genotype (ToxoDB genotype #9 or Chinese 1) is widely prevalent in cats in China and it has been epidemiologically linked to outbreaks of clinical toxoplasmosis in pigs and deaths in humans in China; this genotype has rarely been detected in other countries. This review will be of interest to biologists, parasitologists, veterinarians, and public health workers.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32645556
pii: S0304-4017(20)30125-4
doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2020.109145
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

109145

Informations de copyright

Published by Elsevier B.V.

Auteurs

J P Dubey (JP)

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA. Electronic address: jitender.dubey@ars.usda.gov.

C K Cerqueira-Cézar (CK)

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA.

F H A Murata (FHA)

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA.

O C H Kwok (OCH)

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA.

Y R Yang (YR)

Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China.

C Su (C)

Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0845, USA.

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