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Toxoplasmosis

Background

Toxoplasmosis is an infection which is caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii which affects all warm blooded animals including humans. Infection is caught by eating anything infected or contaminated with the parasite such as raw or under cooked meat, food contaminated with infected cat faeces or the soil where cats mess, and unpasteurised goat's milk.

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Medical text written May 1996 by Contact a Family. Approved May 1996 by Dr T Brand, Toxoplasmosis Trust, London UK. Last updated February 2004 by Dr D Ho-Yen, Director, Scottish Toxoplasma Reference Laboratory, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, UK.

 

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