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Article: Toxoplasmosis
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Toxoplasmosis
What Is Toxoplasmosis?
How Common Is Toxoplasmosis?
Is Toxoplasmosis Contagious?
What Happens to People with Toxoplasmosis?
How Do Doctors Diagnose Toxoplasmosis?
What is the Treatment for Toxoplasmosis?
Can Toxoplasmosis Be Prevented?
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Toxoplasmosis (tox-o-plaz-MO-sis), often called toxo, is a parasitic infection that usually causes no symptoms in healthy people, but it can be serious in people with weak immune systems and in unborn babies.
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Parasitic diseases
Toxoplasma gondii
Zoonoses
What Is Toxoplasmosis?
The parasite
Toxoplasma gondii
, the organism behind toxoplasmosis, is found ...