Toxoplasma gondii--keeping our guests under control.
You might have a closer relationship than you think with one of nature's most widespread and successful parasites. Many of us harbour this subtle organism in our brains and muscles in an uneasy truce; but recent insights into its biochemistry and genetics could provide us with new ways of coping when this 'guest' gets out of hand.
Wastling
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Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ. j.wastling@bio.gla.ac.uk
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Ferguson
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D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000469:parasitology*; D002415:Cats; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000469:parasitology*; D016052:Protozoan Vaccines / Q000276:immunology; D011634:Public Health; D011739:Pyrimethamine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013411:Sulfadiazine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000276:immunology / Q000502:physiology; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology*
D016052:Protozoan Vaccines; D013411:Sulfadiazine; D011739:Pyrimethamine