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Article: New protozoan study findings have been published by W. Desouza and colleagues.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- August 18, 2009
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"Historically, scientists in Brazil has significantly contributed to the biology, cultivation and structural organization of the pathogenic protozoan Toxoplasma gondii and its interaction with host cells, starting with the description of the protozoan by Splendore in 1908. The intracellular and extracellular corpuscoli observed in rabbits, corresponded to what we now as tachyzoites," researchers in Brazil report (see also Protozoan).
"Later on, a pioneering method to grow T. gondii in tissue cultures was developed by Guimaraes and Meyer, 1942. They also observed for the first time T. gondii by transmission electron microscopy and made the initial description of ...
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