[The incidence of toxoplasmosis among wild vertebrates of Turkmenia (based on serologic data)].

985 wild small mammals and birds were serologically investigated for toxoplasmosis from 1981 to 1984 in Turkmenia: antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in the indirect hemagglutination and immunofluorescent complement fixation reactions according to Goldwasser and Shepard were found in 247 (25.0%), in 11 of 17 investigated species of mammals and in 13 of 22 species of birds. A sharp rise in the toxoplasmosis infection level of wild mammals was found out serologically for the first time (from 1.

A review of toxoplasmosis of animals in the U.S.S.R.

Information on the serologic and parasitologic prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in domestic and wild animals of the U.S.S.

[Toxoplasmas of wild warm-blooded animals in Turkmenia].

Antibodies to Toxoplasma in the reaction of indirect hemagglutination were found in 8 species of mammals and 2 species of birds. Carriage of antibodies to Toxoplasma in house mouse, common fox, bald coot , and rock-dove was first recorded from Turkmenia . Analysis of the infection with Toxoplasma according to species, habitat of antibodies carriers, their ecology, age, sex and season of investigation is given.

[Characteristics of toxoplasmosis-induced myocarditis in experimental peroral infection].

In oral infection with cysts and oocysts of strain 131 Toxoplasma gondii, specific interstitial productive myocarditis with involvement of the endo- and pericardium developed in albino mice and guinea pigs in the acute stage of the process. Toxoplasmic myocarditis terminated in focal cardiosclerosis. The intensity of cardiac affection was higher in oral infection with toxoplasm oocysts than in infection with cysts than in infection with cysts.