Pathogenesis of experimental toxoplasmosis in mice with strains differing in virulence

Abstract

Parameters of virulence and the course of infection were compared in mice infected with Toxoplasma gondii strains P-Cz (mice, virulent), 38 (cyst-forming, highly pathogenic) and HIF (cyst-forming, avirulent). Mice, that succumbed to infection wi

Keywords

• Toxoplasma gondii
• cyst
• histopathology
• mortality
• parasitemia
• toxoplasmosis
• mice virulence
• weight loss