Toxoplasma gondii is a single-celled protozoan parasite capable of infecting humans and virtually all warm-blooded animals. Cats and other felids are its definitive hosts, while a wide range of intermediate hosts can be infected through contaminated soil, water, or food, including undercooked meat containing tissue …
Toxoplasma gondii is a single-celled protozoan parasite capable of infecting humans and virtually all warm-blooded animals. Cats and other felids are its definitive hosts, while a wide range of intermediate hosts can be infected through contaminated soil, water, or food, including undercooked meat containing tissue cysts. The resulting infection, toxoplasmosis, is often asymptomatic or causes only mild, flu-like symptoms in immunocompetent individuals, but it can be far more serious in people with weakened immune systems and during pregnancy, when transmission to the fetus can cause congenital disease. The parasite is distributed worldwide and provokes immune responses that can be tracked through markers such as cytokines. Within this journal's focus on parasitology, relevant work includes a study measuring cytokine levels, interleukin-8 and interleukin-17, in pregnant women with toxoplasmosis in Khartoum State, and a study of domestic pigeons as a potential reservoir for the transmission of human protozoan parasites. Together these address the immune consequences of infection and the routes by which protozoan parasites reach human hosts. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to the topic.
3 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 3 articles above have been cited 32 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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