title: A Bradyzoite is a Bradyzoite is a Bradyzoite?
abstract: Bradyzoite forms of Toxoplasma gondii persist in tissue cysts for the lifetime of an infected host and can reactivate to cause clinical disease. It was thought that in vivo bradyzoites within tissue cysts are biologically inactive dormant forms that rarely replicate. Apparently, consensus was wrong.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, and Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA. Electronic address: kami.kim@einstein.yu.edu.
authors.forename: Kami
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003560:Cysts / Q000469:parasitology*; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Toxoplasma; bradyzoite; tissue cyst