Waterborne toxoplasmosis, Brazil, from field to gene

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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Published inEmerging infectious diseases Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 326 - 329
Main Authors de Moura, Lenildo, Bahia-Oliveira, Lilian Marcia Garcia, Wada, Marcelo Y, Jones, Jeffrey L, Tuboi, Suely H, Carmo, Eduardo H, Ramalho, Walter Massa, Camargo, Natal J, Trevisan, Ronaldo, Graça, Regina M T, da Silva, Alexandre J, Moura, Iaci, Dubey, J P, Garrett, Denise O
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.02.2006
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subjects
Animals
Antibodies, Protozoan - blood
Antigens, Protozoan - genetics
Brazil
Brazil - epidemiology
Case-Control Studies
Causes of
Contamination
Disease Outbreaks
Dispatch
Drinking water
Filtration - methods
Health aspects
Humans
Micropore Filters - parasitology
outbreak
Protozoan Proteins - genetics
Toxoplasma
Toxoplasma - classification
Toxoplasma - genetics
Toxoplasma - immunology
Toxoplasma - isolation & purification
Toxoplasma gondii
Toxoplasmosis
Toxoplasmosis - epidemiology
Toxoplasmosis - parasitology
Toxoplasmosis - transmission
water
Water - parasitology
Water Pollution
Water Supply
Brazil
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Summary: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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ISSN:1080-6040
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DOI:10.3201/eid1202.041115