Additional haplogroups of Toxoplasma gondii out of Africa: population structure and mouse-virulence of strains from Gabon.

• Main Authors: Aurélien Mercier (Author), Sébastien Devillard (Author), Barthélémy Ngoubangoye (Author), Henri Bonnabau (Author), Anne-Laure Bañuls (Author), Patrick Durand (Author), Bettina Salle (Author), Daniel Ajzenberg (Author), Marie-Laure Dardé (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND: Toxoplasma gondii is found worldwide, but distribution of its genotypes as well as clinical expression of human toxoplasmosis varies across the continents. Several studies in Europe, North America and South America argued for a role of genotypes in the clinical expression of human toxopl...