Waterborne toxoplasmosis, Brazil, from field to gene.
Water was the suspected vehicle of Toxoplasma gondii dissemination in a toxoplasmosis outbreak in Brazil. A case-control study and geographic mapping of cases were performed. T. gondii was isolated directly from the implicated water and genotyped as SAG 2 type I.
Ministério de Saúde, Brasília, Brasil.
Lenildo
L
de Moura
Lilian Marcia Garcia
LM
Bahia-Oliveira
Marcelo Y
MY
Wada
Jeffrey L
JL
Jones
Suely H
SH
Tuboi
Eduardo H
EH
Carmo
Walter Massa
WM
Ramalho
Natal J
NJ
Camargo
Ronaldo
R
Trevisan
Regina M T
RM
Graça
Alexandre J
AJ
da Silva
Iaci
I
Moura
J P
JP
Dubey
Denise O
DO
Garrett
D000818:Animals; D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan / Q000097:blood; D000953:Antigens, Protozoan / Q000235:genetics; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005374:Filtration / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008851:Micropore Filters / Q000469:parasitology; D015800:Protozoan Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission; D014867:Water / Q000469:parasitology*; D014876:Water Pollution; D014881:Water Supply
D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan; D000953:Antigens, Protozoan; D015800:Protozoan Proteins; D014867:Water; C067547:surface antigen P22, Toxoplasma