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MedicineNet: Toxoplasmosis - Doctor produceed consumer health information on toxoplasmosis including cuases, symptoms, risk factors, complications in babies and children, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
Kidshealth: Toxoplasmosis - Focus is on the disease in children. Features signs, sypmtoms, prevention, and treatment.
MedlinePlus: Toxoplasmosis - Includes articles and links.
CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases : Toxoplasmosis - Features symptoms, fact sheet, laboratory tests, and articles.
Toxoplasmosis Facts - Includes cause, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, complications, treatment, and prevention.
Handbook of Ocular Disease Management: Toxoplasmosis - Information on the effects of the disease on the eye.
Toxoplasma gondii - Photomicrographs of the stages of the organism that causes toxoplasmosis.
MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Toxoplasmosis - Features symptoms, prevention, treatment, illustrations, and prognosis.
eMedicine: Toxoplasmosis - Article by Joseph Sciammarella, MD, FACP, FACEP, DABMA.
Cat Fanciers' Association: Health Committee - Toxoplasmosis and Pregnancy - Addresses the concerns of pregnant cat owners about the disease.

Spiramycin - Spiramycin is a macrolide antibiotic. It is used to treat toxoplasmosis.
Tachyzoites - Tachyzoites are motile forms of coccidians that form tissue cysts, such as toxoplasmosis and sarcocystis. Tachyzoites divide by endodyogeny, and are typically formed in vacuoles within cells.
Cryptosporidium - Cryptosporidium is a protozoan pathogen of the Phylum Apicomplexa and causes a diarrheal illness called cryptosporidiosis. Other apicomplexan pathogens include the malaria parasite Plasmodium, and Toxoplasma, the causative agent of toxoplasmosis.
Bradyzoite - Bradyzoite (from Greek brady=slow and zōon=animal) is a sessile (slow-growing), form of a zoonotic microorganism, typically, Toxoplasma gondii, including others responsible for parasitic infections. In chronic (latent) toxoplasmosis, bradyzoite microscopically presents as clusters enclosed by an irregular crescent-shaped wall (a pseudocyst), in infected muscle and brain tissues.
François, comte de Clermont - HRH Prince François Henri Louis Marie d'Orléans, Comte de Clermont (born 7 February 1961), is the eldest son of the Orleanist pretender to the French throne, Henri, comte de Paris, duc de France. Both he and his younger sister, Blanche, are mentally disabled from congenital toxoplasmosis.