Describe Toxoplamosis in terms of: Etiology Species affected Transmission and pathogenesis Clinical signs Diagnosis Treatment and control.

      

Describe Toxoplamosis in terms of:
Etiology
Species affected
Transmission and pathogenesis
Clinical signs
Diagnosis
Treatment and control.

  

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Kavungya
etiology,
Toxoplama gondii

Species affected
humans and other warm-blooded animals, including birds

Transmission and pathogenesis
T. gondii is transmitted by consumption of infectious oocysts in cat feces, consumption of tissue cysts in infected meat, and by transplacental transfer from mother to fetus
Following consumption of uncooked meat containing tissue cysts (carnivores) or feed or drink contaminated with cat feces containing oocysts (all warm-blooded animals), T gondii initiates extra intestinal replication. Bradyzoites and sporozoites, respectively, are released and infect intestinal epithelium. After several rounds of epithelial replication, tachyzoites emerge and disseminate via the bloodstream and lymph. Tachyzoites infect tissues throughout the body and replicate intracellularly until the cells burst, causing tissue necrosis

Clinical signs
fever, diarrhea, cough, dyspnea, icterus, seizures, and death

Diagnosis
Clinical signs +laboratory tests

Treatment and control
Treat by antibiotics
Kavungya answered the question on May 6, 2019 at 13:24


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