Toxoplasma gondii--an amazing parasite. A comment to the article of Koshy A.A. et al. "Toxoplasma co-opts host cells it does not invade".

Ann Parasitol

Department of Immunoparasitology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237 Lódź, Poland.

Published: September 2013

Ubiquitous parasite of humans and endothermic animals Toxoplasma gondii (type Apicomplexa), identified by Nicolle and Manceaux over 100 years ago, is still an object of numerous extensive studies bringing very interesting and often even surprising observations as that announced in the title [1].

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