Toxoplasma gondii : the model apicomplexan : perspectives and methods /

Toxoplasmosis is caused by a one-celled protozoan parasite known as Toxoplasma gondii. In the United States, it is estimated that approximately 30% of cats, the primary carriers, have been infected by T. gondii. Most humans contract toxoplasmosis by eating cyst-contaminated raw or undercooked meat,...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Weiss, Louis M., Kim, Kami
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Academic Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • History
  • Life Cycle and Ultrastructure
  • Population Structure and Epidemiology
  • Clinical Disease and Diagnostics
  • Ocular Disease
  • Animal Models and Therapeutics
  • Biochemistry and Metabolism
  • Apicoplast
  • Acidocalcisome
  • Invasion and Secretion
  • Alterations in Host Cell Biology due to T. gondii
  • Bradyzoite Development-
  • Classical Genetics
  • Genetic manipulation
  • Gene Regulation
  • Genomic analysis and comparison of apicomplexa
  • Arrays
  • Proteomics
  • Mucosal Immunology and the innate response
  • Immunologic mechanisms
  • Adaptive Immune Response
  • Toxoplamosis as a Pathogen in Wildlife and Domestic Animals
  • Toxoplasma as a model system to study other Apicomplexa
  • Appendix 1: Monoclonal antibodies for T. gondii
  • Appendix 2: Vectors for T. gondii
  • Appendix 3. Animal models.