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Rev. biol. trop ; 45(4): 1559-61, dic. 1997. ilus
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-238106

ABSTRACT

Presence of T. gondii in meat from several sources was determined by traditional methods and by a new simplified method in wich animals are fed meat directly without any previous treatment with artificial gastric fluid. Tissues are ground and the animals ingest them naturally. Determination of Toxoplasma in lungs or brain (as well as by specific antibody test), showed no statistically significant differences between both methods.


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Food Contamination/analysis , Meat/analysis , Toxoplasma/microbiology , Costa Rica
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Rev. biol. trop ; 44(1): 265-8, abr. 1996. graf
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-218415

ABSTRACT

Sigmodon hispidus, a cotton rat, was inoculated with tachyzoites or oocysts of Costa Rican strains of Toxoplasma gondii to demonstrate the resistance to this parasite, as compared with mice, hamster and white rat infection. Susceptibility to tachyzoite inoculation was higher in this animal than in white rats but lower than in the other animals. Independent to the Toxoplasma strain studied, oocyst infection was less lethal for S. hispidus when compared with mice and hamsters; the results were similar to those observed for white rats. There is a probable participation of this wild animal in the natural Toxoplasma life cycle.


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Animals , Cricetinae , Mice , Rats , Toxoplasma/physiology , Toxoplasmosis, Animal/immunology , Mice, Inbred Strains , Disease Susceptibility , Immunity, Innate , Mesocricetus , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , Sigmodontinae
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Rev. biol. trop ; 43(1/3): 27-30, abr.-dic. 1995. tab, graf
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-218403

ABSTRACT

Groups of 1, 5, 10, 15 and 30 day old rats (Sprague Dawley) and Wistar mice were infected per os with different inocula of Toxoplasma gondii oocysts from an avirulent strain. Infection pattern was followed by determination of survival time, tissue lesions, parasite presence and serology. Although all the animals survived the total experimental period (30 day), there were important differences between both rodents regarding to Toxoplasma natural resistance. Brain cysts, as well as tachyzoites in other organs were regularly present in mice but not in rats. On the other hand, most of the organs from mice presented characteristic T. gondii lesions, while in rats a normal tissues were observed, with the exception of an acute reaction found in the brain of a 15d old animal


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Animals , Mice , Rats , Toxoplasma/physiology , Toxoplasmosis/immunology , Age Factors , Cerebrum/parasitology , Immunity, Innate/immunology , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , Toxoplasmosis/mortality , Toxoplasmosis/parasitology
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