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Chronic Toxoplasma Infection Modifies the Structure and the Risk of Host Behavior

The intracellular parasite Toxoplasma has an indirect life cycle, in which felids are the definitive host. It has been suggested that this parasite developed mechanisms for enhancing its transmission rate to felids by inducing behavioral modifications in the intermediate rodent host. For example, To...

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Autores principales: Afonso, Cristina, Paixão, Vitor B., Costa, Rui M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3303785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22431975
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032489