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  2. Toxoplasmosis - Wikipedia

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    Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii, an apicomplexan. [3] Infections with toxoplasmosis are associated with a variety of neuropsychiatric and behavioral conditions. [8] Occasionally, people may have a few weeks or months of mild, flu-like illness such as muscle aches and tender lymph nodes. [1]

  3. Toxoplasma gondii - Wikipedia

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    Dividing T. gondii parasites. Toxoplasma gondii (/ ˈ t ɒ k s ə ˌ p l æ z m ə ˈ ɡ ɒ n d i. aɪ,-iː /) is a species of parasitic alveolate that causes toxoplasmosis. [3] Found worldwide, T. gondii is capable of infecting virtually all warm-blooded animals, [4]: 1 but felids are the only known definitive hosts in which the parasite may undergo sexual reproduction.

  4. Toxocara cati - Wikipedia

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    Toxocara cati, also known as the feline roundworm, is a parasite of cats and other felids. It is one of the most common nematodes of cats, infecting both wild and domestic felids worldwide. Adult worms are localised in the gut of the host. In adult cats, the infection – which is called toxocariasis – is usually asymptomatic. However ...

  5. List of feline diseases - Wikipedia

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    Feline diseases are often opportunistic and tend to be more serious in cats that already have concurrent sicknesses. Some of these can be treated and the animal can have a complete recovery. Others, like viral diseases, are more difficult to treat and cannot be treated with antibiotics, which are not effective against viruses.

  6. Cat and Golden Retriever Are Outsmarted by Kitchen Mouse at ...

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    A 2013 study in the academic journal PLoS ONE found that when mice get toxoplasmosis they lose their fear of cats. It's true. It's true. The infection completely alters something in a mouse's brain.

  7. Cytauxzoonosis - Wikipedia

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    Now there have been documented cases of cats that get sick and survive the infection and even those that never show clinical signs at all. [2] [5] [9] [10] Cats cannot catch the infection from another cat directly without being bitten by a tick. [citation needed] The life cycle of the protozoa has a tissue phase and an erythrocytic (red blood ...

  8. Rare strain of parasite that killed 4 otters in California ...

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    A rare and unusually powerful strain of a parasite commonly found in cat feces killed four otters on the California coast, a finding researchers described Wednesday as unprecedented and ...

  9. Feline zoonosis - Wikipedia

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    A feline zoonosis is a viral, bacterial, fungal, protozoan, nematode or arthropod infection that can be transmitted to humans from the domesticated cat, Felis catus.Some of these diseases are reemerging and newly emerging infections or infestations caused by zoonotic pathogens transmitted by cats.