Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan parasite that can only sexually reproduce within cat guts, regularly infects warm-blooded mammals. In healthy humans, it usually does not cause adverse affects, though ...

Toxoplasma gondii is a common parasite in humans, but exactly how it’s so good at spreading has been murky. Now scientists at Stockholm University have uncovered a sneaky Trojan horse technique that ...

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Toxoplasma gondii is probably the most successful parasite in the world today. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The disease caused ...

Toxoplasma gondii requires the cat digestive system for reproduction, so it hitches a ride in a rat Courtesy of flickr user cobalt123 The life cycle of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii goes like this: ...

But since toxoplasmosa gondii evolved to move between rats and cats, its neurological alterations are most prominent in those creatures. “If you’re a rat, and you get infected with it, it makes it so ...

Toxoplasmosis is a common infection from the microscopic parasite Toxoplasma gondii. It appears in many species of animals, but cats are the most common that transmit the parasite to humans. Over 40 ...

Around a third of us are infected with a brain parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. This single-celled creature spreads to humans from cats, and has a tendency to change the behaviour of its hosts. Now, ...

Trapped alone on a haunted space station, one scientist races to finish a bio-weapon before it destroys them Toxoplasma is a claustrophobic space horror experience of survival, madness, and moral ...