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TOXOPLASMOSIS is a widely occurring protozoan infection of most species of animals. The causative agent, Toxoplasma gondii, is an obligate intracellular parasite. In general, the natural infection is clinically inapparent, but occasionally it is severe, and sometimes fatal. Toxoplasma infections have been observed in animals, and in human beings with concurrent viral disease. Canine distemper and toxoplasmosis quite frequently complicate each other, and it has been suggested that the virus disease activates the latent protozoan infection1. Patients have been reported to have toxoplasmosis concomitant with herpetic pneumonia2 and with cytomegalic inclusion disease3.
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BURNSTEIN, T., BICKFORD, A. Double Infections of Cultured Cells. Nature 220, 299–300 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220299a0
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