When 17-year-old Manirul Beg from Haldia came to Delhi a year ago, hoping to get herself treated for tuberculosis, little did ...

Himalayan cat lifespan. As with most cats, a Himalayan cat can live around 15 years. Genetics, ... PKD causes cysts to form on the kidneys, gradually leading to kidney failure.

Toxoplasma cysts floating in cat feces. DPDx Image Library/CDC. In 2017, my colleagues and I found that Toxoplasma can also form cysts in mouse prostates.

A wolf infected with toxoplasma gondii is 46 times more likely to become a pack leader than an uninfected wolf.

As kitten season continues to be overwhelming, I’m sure that those of you caring for the little ones have become aware that ...

Cats can continuously shed cysts containing the toxoplasmosis parasite from 3 days after exposure, up to 14 days. The cysts can survive for over a year. How Is Toxoplasmosis Spread?

In the cat scat, these cysts can survive inert for a year or more. They may enter another animal by the water supply, through snow melt or rain runoff. “In Vancouver, ...

T. gondii needs cats to complete its complex life cycle, but it infects other, intermediate hosts to get there, particularly rodents.Once inside a rodent, the single-celled protozoan parasite will ...