Toxoplasma gondii--keeping our guests under control

Biologist (London). 2000 Nov;47(5):234-8.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain / parasitology*
  • Cats
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunocompromised Host / immunology
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Microscopy, Electron
  • Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
  • Muscle, Skeletal / parasitology*
  • Protozoan Vaccines / immunology
  • Public Health
  • Pyrimethamine / therapeutic use
  • Sulfadiazine / therapeutic use
  • Toxoplasma / growth & development*
  • Toxoplasma / immunology
  • Toxoplasma / physiology
  • Toxoplasmosis / drug therapy
  • Toxoplasmosis / immunology
  • Toxoplasmosis / pathology*

Substances

  • Protozoan Vaccines
  • Sulfadiazine
  • Pyrimethamine