Toxoplasmosis in other animals
The asexual proliferative stages of Toxoplasma gondii, with formation of tissue cysts, cause disease in a wide range of intermediate animal hosts (including humans) that are infected by
- Consuming sporulated T gondii oocysts shed by cats,
- Consuming tissues of other intermediate hosts containing T gondii cysts, or
- Transplacentally.
Diagnosis
Clinical signs, histopathology.
Specimens required
- Sections of liver, kidney, heart, spleen, muscle and brain, submitted in buffered formalin for histopathology.
There are no routine serological tests available for animals other than sheep and goats.