Background: Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic parasitic disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii. Toxoplasma gondii infection of the lungs can lead to severe pneumonia. However, few studies have reported Toxoplasma pneumonia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs an obligate intracellular apicomplexan parasite, Eimeria tenella (E. tenella) can rapidly invade chicken cecum epithelial cells and cause avian coccidiosis. Enolase, an essential enzyme that catalyzes the reversible conversion of 2-phosphoglycerate into phosphoenolpyruvate, plays a very important role in glycolysis.
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