Waterborne Toxoplasmosis, Brazil, from Field to Gene

de Moura, Lenildo; M. G. Bahia‐Oliveira, Lilian; Yoshito Wada, Marcelo; L. Jones, Jeffrey; Tuboi, Suely; Hage Carmo, Eduardo; Massa Ramalho, Walter; Jataí de Camargo, Natal; Trevisan, Ronaldo; M.T. Graça, Regina; J. da Silva, Alexandre; N. S. Moura, Iaci; P. Dubey, J.; O. Garrett, Denise

doi:10.3201/eid1202.041115

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Waterborne Toxoplasmosis, Brazil, from Field to Gene

Published in Emerging infectious diseases • Feb 1, 2006

Authors:

Lenildo de Moura

Lilian M. G. Bahia‐Oliveira

Marcelo Yoshito Wada

Abstract

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.

Subject

Toxoplasmosis

Toxoplasma gondii

Outbreak

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