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Toxoplasma gondii: linking land and sea.
A bobcat crossing the path of a remotely triggered field camera looks out over a coastal California marsh that connects to sea otter habitat. Environmental transmission of the globally distributed zoonotic parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, has caused severe illness in people and animals, including California sea otters. Wild and domestic felids shed hardy T. gondii oocysts, which can infect hosts in diverse terrestrial environments and be carried in freshwater runoff to aquatic systems. See VanWormer et al.
Image Credit: Elizabeth VanWormer, One Health Institute, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis
Citation: (2014) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 8(5) May 2014. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 8(5): ev08.i05. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v08.i05
Published: May 29, 2014
Copyright: © 2014 VanWormer et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
A bobcat crossing the path of a remotely triggered field camera looks out over a coastal California marsh that connects to sea otter habitat. Environmental transmission of the globally distributed zoonotic parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, has caused severe illness in people and animals, including California sea otters. Wild and domestic felids shed hardy T. gondii oocysts, which can infect hosts in diverse terrestrial environments and be carried in freshwater runoff to aquatic systems. See VanWormer et al.
Image Credit: Elizabeth VanWormer, One Health Institute, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis