Latency in Toxoplasmosis

Prof Dr, Raafat M Shaapan., Name: Raafat Mohamed Shaapan Sayed Nationality: Egyptian Date of birth: May 27, 1967 Present position: Prof. of Epidemiology and Zoonotic Diseases at Zoonotic Disease Department, Veterinary Research Division, National Research Center, Egypt. Dr. Shaapan specialization is Food Hygiene Epidemiology and Zoonotic Disease.

This Book will be concern the epidemiological and zoonotic aspects of latent human and animal toxoplasmosis, mechanism and factors inducing latency, with the major human illness. Also, will be discuss the advances in diagnosis and preventive control measures which serve reducing economical draw backs on animals and human health. Toxoplasma gondii is an ideal zoonotic coccidian protozoan; it can spread via most typical zoonotic manners, by direct, cyclo and saprozoonosis. Since human blood transfusion and organs transplantation were medicinal advanced, latency in toxoplasmosis has occupied superior health attention amongst latent opportunistic pathogens. Latency in toxoplasmosis is an encystment securing dormant bradyzoites to persist and spread within new hosts without obligate require to proceeding through its sexual stage. Humans, all warm blooded mammals and birds are intermediate hosts harboring tissue cysts; while oocysts shedder kittens and re-shedder latent infected cats are the only definitive host, they are of public health impact through them able to regular pollute the surrounding by oocysts more than once during their life span.