Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), an attractive DNA amplification method, was developed as a valuable tool for the rapid detection of Toxoplasma gondii. In this study, species-specific LAMP primers were designed by targeting the AF146527 sequence, which was a conserved sequence of 200- to 300-fold repetitive 529 bp fragment of T.gondii. LAMP reaction system was optimized so that it...

Background: Toxoplasma gondii is an important zoonotic pathogen. Vertical transmission of the parasite occurs when females were infected primarily during gestation. This parasite transmitted to the fetus through the placenta and may cause miscarriage, permanent neurological damage, premature birth and visual impairment. Materials and Methods: Two 6-8-week NMRI females mice were crossed with one...

background: this study was performed to induce conversion of rh strain tachyzoites of toxoplasma gondii to bradyzoites by ph changing of the cul­ture medium. methods: hela cell monolayers were infected at a 1:1 tachyzoite to cell ratio. four hours after infection, the culture medium was removed and re­placed with culture medium and 5% fcs, adjusted to ph 8 with naoh. the culture was maintained ...

background: this study was designed to evaluate whether or not t. gondii and its derivatives can change the gene expression level of il-10 in murine leukocytes in vivo.   methods: fifty balb/c mice were divided into 5 groups, four of which received the excretory/secretory product (esp) from cell culture medium, the esp from cell free medium, the toxoplasma lysate product (tlp) and the active ta...

Toxoplasma gondii has a complex two-host life-cycle between intermediate host and definitive host. Understanding proteomic variations across the life-cycle stages of T. gondii may improve the understanding of molecular adaption mechanism of T. gondii across life-cycle stages, and should have implications for the development of new treatment and prevention interventions against T. gondii infecti...

Abstract Toxoplasma gondii ( T. ) is an obligate intracellular parasite with a wide range of hosts, including humans and many warm-blooded animals. The exists in two interconvertible forms, namely tachyzoites bradyzoites intermediate hosts that are responsible for acute chronic infections respectively. Mature accumulate large amounts amylopectin granules but their roles have not been fully char...

objective: toxoplasmosis, caused by an intracellular protozoan parasite, and the toxoplasma gondii, is widespread throughout the world. in recent years, significant progress has been made in the identification of vaccine candidates which could induce a protective response. gra7, an excretory 29 kda toxoplasma gondii a dense granular antigen released by infected host cells. in tachyzoite-infect...

The apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is a leading opportunistic pathogen associated with AIDS and congenital birth defects. Due to the need for identifying new parasite-specific treatments, the possibility of targeting sphingolipid biosynthesis in the parasite was investigated. Aureobasidin A, an inhibitor of the enzyme synthesizing the sphingolipid inositol phosphorylceramide, which is ...

Within warm-blooded animals, Toxoplasma gondii switches from an actively replicating form called a tachyzoite into a slow growing encysted form called a bradyzoite. To uncover the genes involved in bradyzoite development, we screened over 8000 T. gondii insertional mutants by immunofluorescence microscopy. We identified nine bradyzoite development mutants that were defective in both cyst wall f...