Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2006)

Waterborne Toxoplasmosis, Brazil, from Field to Gene

  • Lenildo de Moura,
  • Lilian Maria Garcia Bahia-Oliveira,
  • Marcelo Y. Wada,
  • Jeffrey L. Jones,
  • Suely H. Tuboi,
  • Eduardo H. Carmo,
  • Walter Massa Ramalho,
  • Natal J. Camargo,
  • Ronaldo Trevisan,
  • Regina M.T. Graça,
  • Alexandre J. da Silva,
  • Iaci Moura,
  • J.P. Dubey,
  • Denise O. Garrett

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1202.041115
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 2
pp. 326 – 329

Abstract

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Water was the suspected vehicle of Toxoplasma gondii dissemination in a toxoplasmosis outbreak in Brazil. A case-control study and geographic mapping of cases were performed. T. gondii was isolated directly from the implicated water and genotyped as SAG 2 type I.

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