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Congenital transmission of experimental chronic toxoplasmosis in rats
1Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay.
The Journal of Parasitology
|August 26, 1999
Abstract:
A 10% transplacental transmission rate was observed in litters from 89 Wistar rats chronically infected with Toxoplasmosis gondii, as judging from bioassays. The rats had been fed T. gondii 2 mo prior to mating. Six of 7 isolates of T. gondii were transplacentally transmitted. The frequency of transmission did not appear to be affected by the strain of T. gondii or the size of the inoculum.