Waterborne Toxoplasmosis, Brazil, from Field to Gene

Lenildo de Moura, Lilian M. G. Bahia‐Oliveira, Marcelo Yoshito Wada, Jeffrey L. Jones, Suely Tuboi, Eduardo Hage Carmo, Walter Massa Ramalho, Natal Jataí de Camargo, Ronaldo Trevisan, Regina M.T. Graça,

Emerging infectious diseases · 2006 · 338 citations · 13 references

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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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