High prevalence and diversity of Toxoplasma gondii DNA in feral cat feces from coastal California

• Sophie Zhu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sozhu@ucdavis.edu (SZ); liz.vanwormer@unl.edu (EVW); kshapiro@ucdavis.edu (KS)

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8694-4058

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• Lauren Camp,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Anika Patel,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Elizabeth VanWormer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sozhu@ucdavis.edu (SZ); liz.vanwormer@unl.edu (EVW); kshapiro@ucdavis.edu (KS)

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Karen Shapiro

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sozhu@ucdavis.edu (SZ); liz.vanwormer@unl.edu (EVW); kshapiro@ucdavis.edu (KS)

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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