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Toxoplasmosis Learning Center
Causes could include:
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Toxoplasma gondii
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Toxoplasmosis is found in humans worldwide, and in many species of animals and birds. Cats are the definitive host of the parasite.
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Healthy individuals do not usually display symptoms. When symptoms do occur, they are usually mild, resembling infectious mononucleosis , and include the following: enlarged lymph nodes muscle pains fever that comes and goes general sick feeling T...
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In fetuses, the severity of infection is dependent on the time of transmission. Fetuses who acquire the infection during the first trimester of pregnancy often are still-born or die shortly after birth. Fetuses who acquire the infection late in pr...
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