Toxoplasma gondii can be transmitted via the fecal–oral route through consuming food or water contaminated with oocysts or via ingestion or consumption of tissue cysts in raw or undercooked meat ...

Farmers have been urged to check their livestock for cryptosporidiosis and carry out routine testing and vaccination to keep ...

Many groups of zoonotic parasites can be classified as foodborne ones, as those that are fecal-orally transmitted by means of cysts or oocysts, as Toxoplasma gondii; or through eggs or larvae, as ...

gondii is arguably the most successful protozoan parasite on Earth. The parasite can only undergo sexual reproduction in the cat intestine, where the parasite forms zygote-containing cysts, called ...

Motility is important for crossing the midgut and establishment of the replicative oocyst stage in the mosquito. Knock out of the IMC protein IMC1b/ALV5 led to reduced ookinete motility and therefore ...

Martha graduated from University of Cambridge with a BA in Natural Sciences and went on to do a PhD in cell biology at University College London. She then undertook postdoctoral work at Massachusetts ...