Communication between Toxoplasma gondii and its host: impact on parasite growth, development, immune evasion, and virulence

Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite that can infect most warm-blooded animals and cause severe and life-threatening disease in developing fetuses and in immune-compromised patients. Although Toxoplasma was discovered over 100 years ago, we are only now beginning to appr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Blader, Ira J., Saeij, Jeroen
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Wiley Blackwell 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74553