Identification of an Atypical Strain of Toxoplasma gondii as the Cause of a Waterborne Outbreak of Toxoplasmosis in Santa Isabel do Ivai, Brazil

• Published in: The Journal of infectious diseases Vol. 202; no. 8; pp. 1226 - 1233
• Main Authors: Vaudaux, Jean D., Muccioli, Cristina, James, Erick R., Silveira, Claudio, Magargal, Spencer L., Jung, Calvin, Dubey, J. P., Jones, Jeffrey L., Doymaz, Mehmet Z., Bruckner, David A., Belfort, Rubens, Holland, Gary N., Grigg, Michael E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University of Chicago Press 15.10.2010; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Animals; Antibodies; Biological and medical sciences; Brazil - epidemiology; Disease Outbreaks; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; Epidemiology; Epitopes; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Genotype; Genotypes; Human protozoal diseases; Humans; Infections; Infectious diseases; Medical sciences; Mice; Microbiology; Parasites; Parasitic diseases; Protozoal diseases; Serology; Serotyping; Species Specificity; Toxoplasma - classification; Toxoplasma - genetics; Toxoplasma - isolation & purification; Toxoplasmosis; Toxoplasmosis - epidemiology; Toxoplasmosis - parasitology; Water Microbiology; South America; Brazil; America; Infection; Protozoa; Apicomplexa; Protozoal disease; Toxoplasma gondii; Toxoplasmosis; Identification; Parasitosis; Strain

Multilocus DNA sequencing has identified a nonarchetypal strain of Toxoplasma gondii as the causal agent of a waterborne outbreak in Brazil in 2001. The strain, isolated from a water supply epidemiologically linked to the outbreak, was virulent to mice, and it has previously been identified as BrI....