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Definition of Toxoplasma
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Toxoplasma
1. A genus of parasitic protozoa. T. Gondii is an intracellular parasite whose intermediate host includes human, the final host being felines of many species. Causes toxoplasmosis in humans in which the parasite finally locates in tissues such as brain, heart, the eye causing serious and sometimes fatal lesions. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toxoplasma
Literary usage of Toxoplasma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"Toxoplasma, Nicolle and Manceaux, 1908. The genus was created for crescentic,
oval or reniform parasites, 2-sp to 6 /i by 2 n to 3 M. possessing a single ..."
2. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"Castellani has named them Toxoplasma pyrogenes. Further researches are needed.
1 Bull. Sac. Path. Exot., vi, p. 318. 1 Journ. Trap. ..."
3. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"Failure to find toxoplasma or pseudocysts in smears and sections from the present
series of cases may not mean that the disease was not initiated by these ..."
4. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Food and Drugs, Pt. 800-1299, Revised by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Staff (2005)
"... Toxoplasma gondii serological reagents. (a) Identification. ... tests to
identify antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in senum. Additionally, some of these ..."
5. Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories edited by Jonathan Y. Richmond, Robert W. McKinney (1994)
"... serologically negative women of childbearing age who might become pregnant
should not work with Toxoplasma in the same laboratory room where these ..."
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