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Waterborne Toxoplasmosis, Brazil, from Field to Gene

Overview
Journal Emerg Infect Dis
Specialty Infectious Diseases
Date 2006 Feb 24
PMID 16494765
Citations 97
Authors
Lenildo de Moura
Lilian Marcia Garcia Bahia-Oliveira
Marcelo Y Wada
Jeffrey L Jones
Suely H Tuboi
Eduardo H Carmo
Walter Massa Ramalho
Natal J Camargo
Ronaldo Trevisan
Regina M T Graca
Alexandre J da Silva
Iaci Moura
J P Dubey
Denise O Garrett
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Abstract

Water was the suspected vehicle of Toxoplasma gondii dissemination in a toxoplasmosis outbreak in Brazil. A case-control study and geographic mapping of cases were performed. T. gondii was isolated directly from the implicated water and genotyped as SAG 2 type I.

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