Experimental Toxoplasmosis in Rats Induced Orally with Eleven Strains of Toxoplasma gondii of Seven Genotypes: Tissue Tropism, Tissue Cyst Size, Neural Lesions, Tissue Cyst Rupture without Reactivation, and Ocular Lesions

• Jitender P. Dubey ,

  * E-mail: Jitender.Dubey@ars.usda.gov

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Leandra R. Ferreira,

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Mohammad Alsaad,

  Affiliation Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Miall Building, Clarendon Way, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Shiv K. Verma,

  Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Derron A. Alves,

  Affiliation Veterinary Pathology Services Joint Pathology Center, 606 Stephen Sitter Ave. Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

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• Gary N. Holland,

  Affiliation Ocular Inflammatory Disease Center, University of California at Los Angles Stein Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Glenn A. McConkey

  Affiliation Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Miall Building, Clarendon Way, Leeds, United Kingdom

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