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.

Parasites take an enormous toll on human and veterinary health. But researchers may have found a way for patients with brain ...

But one hitchhiking microbe called Toxoplasma gondii really gets around, with around one-third of the planet encountering this tiny pathogen in their lifetimes. T. gondii isn’t a virus or a ...

Toxoplasma gondii causes toxoplasmosis, an infection that is asymptomatic for most healthy people but poses a greater risk for those who are immunocompromised or pregnant. It is caused by eating ...

Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is one of those parasites. According to the CDC, 60 million people, in the US alone, may be infected with this parasite.

It is thought almost all sheep flocks in the UK have been exposed to the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which can cause miscarriages, stillbirths and weak lambs. Sheep vet Fiona Lovatt from Flock ...

Wendy Ingram and Adrienne Greene. Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan parasite that can only sexually reproduce within cat guts, regularly infects warm-blooded mammals.In healthy humans, it usually ...

Toxoplasma gondii, a rare and lethal parasite, killed four sea otters in California. Humans and marine wildlife could be at risk, UC Davis and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife says.

We will have to show that when we very effectively treat Toxoplasma, some portion of psychiatric illness goes away.” But T. gondii is just one of an untold number of infectious agents that prey ...

Toxoplasma gondii. This single-celled creature spreads to humans from cats, and has a tendency to change the behaviour of its hosts. Now, a team of scientists led by Frederic Thomas and Kevin Lafferty ...