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Prevalence and Genetic Characterization of Toxoplasma gondii in Bats in Myanmar

Hongchao Sun, Yiyin Wang, Yingguang Zhang, Wei Ge, Fuqiang Zhang, Biao He, Zuosheng Li, Quanshui Fan, Wei Wang, Changchun Tu,

Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2013 · 33 citations · 12 references

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We detected Toxoplasma gondii in 29.3% (95% confidence interval [CI], 25.5% to 33.1%) of 550 insectivorous bats collected in Myanmar. The genotyping of these positive samples revealed they were closely related to or belong to clonal type I, which is highly virulent in mice, showing that these bats are potential reservoirs for T. gondii transmission.

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