Using molecular epidemiology to track Toxoplasma gondii from terrestrial carnivores to marine hosts: implications for public health and conservation.

• Egile Nagusiak: Elizabeth VanWormer (Egilea), Melissa A Miller (Egilea), Patricia A Conrad (Egilea), Michael E Grigg (Egilea), Daniel Rejmanek (Egilea), Tim E Carpenter (Egilea), Jonna A K Mazet (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Environmental transmission of the zoonotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which is shed only by felids, poses risks to human and animal health in temperate and tropical ecosystems. Atypical T. gondii genotypes have been linked to severe disease in people and the threatened population of California sea...