title: Congenital transmission of experimental chronic toxoplasmosis in rats.
abstract: A 10% transplacental transmission rate was observed in litters from 89 Wistar rats chronically infected with Toxoplasmosis gondii, as judging from bioassays. The rats had been fed T. gondii 2 mo prior to mating. Six of 7 isolates of T. gondii were transplacentally transmitted. The frequency of transmission did not appear to be affected by the strain of T. gondii or the size of the inoculum.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Freyre
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Falcón
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Correa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: El Elhou
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mendez
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gedda
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical; D051379:Mice; D011247:Pregnancy; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D014124:Toxoplasmosis, Animal / Q000151:congenital* / Q000635:transmission*