Severe acquired toxoplasmosis caused by wild cycle of Toxoplasma gondii, French Guiana.
From 1998 through 2006, 44 cases of severe primary toxoplasmosis were observed in French Guiana in immunocompetent adults. Toxoplasma gondii isolates exhibited an atypical multilocus genotype. Severe disease in humans may result from poor host adaptation to neotropical zoonotic strains of T. gondii circulating in a forest-based cycle.
Carme
Bernard
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Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana.
Demar
Magalie
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Ajzenberg
Daniel
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Dardé
Marie Laure
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