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Science 29 June 1973:
Vol. 180. no. 4093, pp. 1375 - 1377
DOI: 10.1126/science.180.4093.1375
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Sarcocystis in Mice Inoculated with Toxoplasma-Like Oocysts from Cat Feces

Gordon D. Wallace 1

1 Pacific Research Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and infections Diseases. National Institutes of Health, Honolulu, Hawaii 96806

Sarcocysts morphologically similar to Sarcocystis muris were observed in mice after inoculation with Toxoplasma-like oocysts found in feces of a stray cat. Cats that were fed mice infected with the oocysts shed similar oocysts in their feces. Sarcocysts were found histologically in about 50 percent of mice inoculated with 40,000 or more oocysts and examined 42 days or longer after exposure. Most inoculated mice developed low Toxoplasma dye-test antibody titers 3 to 4 weeks after exposure, but Toxoplasma antibody was usually not detectable in infected cats.


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