Transmission of toxoplasma gondii in Costa Rica: an updated concept
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Recent findings relating to the Toxoplasma gondii transmis-sion in Costa Rica, show us that raw bovine or pork meat sausage ingestion is very important as an infection mecha-nism route.Therefore the traditional model where oocysts ingestion has been considered the principal or the only infection route, has changed. In fact a new tranmission model for this parasitosis where oocyst and cyst ingestion are possible is suggested.
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