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Toxoplasmosis and Horse Meat, France
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38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France; email: Letters Letters commenting on recent articles as well as letters reporting cases, outbreaks, or original research are welcome
We describe 3 cases of toxoplasmosis caused by atypical strains probably acquired by from ingestion of raw horse meat imported from Canada and Brazil
Disseminated toxoplasmosis was diagnosed on the basis of serologic evidence of recent primary T. gondii parasite infection and quantitative PCR detection of high Toxoplasma DNA levels in peripheral blood
Summary
38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France; email: Letters Letters commenting on recent articles as well as letters reporting cases, outbreaks, or original research are welcome. We describe 3 cases of toxoplasmosis caused by atypical strains probably acquired by from ingestion of raw horse meat imported from Canada and Brazil. Disseminated toxoplasmosis was diagnosed on the basis of serologic evidence of recent primary T. gondii parasite infection and quantitative PCR detection of high Toxoplasma DNA levels in peripheral blood.
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