#toxoplasmosi

[medicomunicare]

Toxoplasmosi: il pericolo che rappresenta tutt'oggi e gli sforzi in campo per combatterla

Toxoplasmosi: il pericolo che rappresenta tutt’oggi e gli sforzi in campo per combatterla

Molti medici avvertono le loro pazienti in gravidanza di evitare le feci di gatto; anche la lettiera dell’animale domestico di famiglia è off-limits. Il motivo per cui le donne in gravidanza sono avvertite di rispettare questo ammonimento, è perché potrebbero contrarre la toxoplasmosi, una malattia causata dal microscopico protozoo Toxoplasma gondii. Questo microbo infetta quasi tutti gli animali…

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#antibiotici #atovaquone #barriera ematoencefalica #drug repurposing #malattia infettiva #miltefosina #oxadiazon #parassitosi #pirimetamina #Toxoplasma #toxoplasmosi

[great-and-small]

#memes #parasitology #neuroparasitology #toxoplasmosis #rats #suicide #iasip

[arctic-hands]

Bad news: new mouse in the apartment. Again.

Worse news: we found this out because it was nuzzling @thetabirb 's hand as she slept

Worser news: after i had my initial freak out that made my heart melt and I feel bad that it has to die

Even worser news: I caught a glimpse of it as it scampered out of the bedroom to the kitchen and it had giant years and a short tail and now I feel really really bad about the fact that it has to die

Worst news: I can't capture it and adopt it

Good news: theta checked herself all over and no sign of biting or scratching (I was tucked under the weighted blanket so it couldn't get to me)

#really worried it's an escaped pet because what kind of wild mouse muzzles a human's hand? #i suppose it could have toxoplasmosis but i thought that just made it friendly to cats not people #it doesn't look like a fancy mouse aside from the big ol ears. it looks like a standard brown/gray house mouse #I'm not afraid of rodents for the record I'm afraid of the diseases wild rodents can carry #or the diseases any animal can carry #i have a healthy respect for wild/feral/stray animals and know to be cautious around them even if they are friend shaped #but on top of potential diseases my food budget is limited so i have to make sure a mouse doesn't spoil my meager larder #poor big eared mousie but you must die

[bluebelly-sun-serpentine]

I woke up feeling very anxious this morning and went for a walk to get my blood moving for the Monday crunch. Nearing home, I encountered someone a little shy, and lot curious. This cat went from "I'm extra big, you don't scare me" to "let me show you my belly" real quick. I'm always surprised that people have outdoor cats in this neighborhood; the local coyotes and raccoons (like those I caught skittering into a culvert in the botanical gardens a few minutes earlier) are happy enough to have a go at them. We get speeders all the time, and not every cat is quicker than every car. If they venture a couple blocks too far in the wrong direction, there are mountain lions eager to make a snack of them. I always hope that people will start caring that allowing cats outdoors is really bad for both biodiversity (all the critters the cats kill for play) and for the cats themselves. The average lifespan of outdoor cats is 2-5 years, while most indoor cats can be expected to make it to 14. Indoor cats can get plenty of enrichment, and you should be willing to spend time on enrichment if you have a pet.

Here on the west coast domestic cats may be having an impact even on animals they're likely never to meet: otters and some other marine mammals are seeing outbreaks of fatal infections of Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite most commonly spread by cats. So here's a reminder not to flush your cat litter down the toilet - our waste treatment plants don't actually have the capacity to deal with parasites found in cat litter (they can handle dog and human feces much better).

#fauna #cat #tabbies #standard issue cat #outdoor cats #psa #toxoplasmosis #parasites #kitty #cute kitty #chubby #fluff #otters #digital photography #color photography #sonya7r4 #sonya7riv #photographers on tumblr #animals #animal portrait #cute animals #paws #35mm lens #35mm 1.4 #morning walks #predation #photographers of tumblr #original photography #original content #cats

[hyumjim]

“Cats hate water” factoid actually false. Cats love water when it is in a glass that you want to drink from. Water Georg, my cat who has dipped his paw in over 10,000 glasses,

#thank you for the toxoplasmosis my king

[kaurwreck]

hi when you chew paul verlaine really fast do you chew him like gum or like dandelions whats the situation

also why is your meta soooooooooooooooooooooo good

when i was 10/11, i became fixated with this limp, soggy, violent, nasty worm of a henchman from cornelia funke's inkworld trilogy named basta. one of his many pitiable quirks was that his breath always smelled sharply of mint because once a girl he wanted to kiss told him he had bad breath and so for the rest of his affection-starved, neurotic life he obsessively chewed peppermint leaves from the moment he woke in the morning until he fell fitfully asleep at night. i wanted to wear this man's skin. absent the ability to do so: i happened to have a partitioned plot of dirt bursting with mint that my mother built for me after i'd destroyed her garden by sneaking wild mint roots among her flowers, so i began to pluck and chew mint leaves in imitation of him. except, i hate bitter flavors, especially then, and raw mint is fucking gross the more you grind it (such as between gnashing teeth) because of all of the chlorophyll, so i could only chew the leaves for seconds at a time before frantically spitting them back out. but i wanted to chew mint like basta, and that i struggled to do so mutated a whimsical urge to microdose a character's psyche into a rabid need to overcome my own revulsion. so i spent months and months continuously trying to chew mint leaves, attempting to forcefully acclimate to the taste. i never did manage to raw dog mint leaves for longer than a few seconds at a time, but my yearning to chew mint leaves mellowed out into something of an affectionate, self-deriding habit that i both dreaded and felt terribly warm about. i don't maintain a plot of fresh mint in my city apartment as an adult, but if there's a leaf to pop in my mouth, i sometimes still will; chewing as fast as i can for as long as i can tolerate the taste before spitting it back out with a jejune disgust and an overwhelming fondness. that chewing raw mint tastes terrible isn't something to overcome anymore; the intolerable flavor is part of its charm. that's probably why i liked basta too.

anyway, i chew Paul Verlaine like that.

#bsd verlaine #also I'M SO GLAD YOU LIKE MY META #i think it's because i'm mentally ill #and then natsume soseki gave me toxoplasmosis on top of that

[hozieresque]

This user has toxoplasmosis

#im not even joking #my igG test came back #i had toxoplasmosis at some point in my life #and have the antibodies to show for it #i would have never thought my love for cats would do this to me #and I now have to get my cats tested as well so they can get the needed medicine #from now one i'll blame everything on the parasyte #sorry i called you a bitch it was the toxoplasmosis

[merverelli]

"you need me, boy, your free will is an i̷l̴l̶u̷s̷i̴o̸-"

#jacksepticeye #antisepticeye #septicart #just like art #ps5 meme #holy hell hello its been a bit #im back at uni and its exam season *worn out tired party horn sound effect* #i just sent in my final 3000 word report tonight too #if you wanna know anything about toxoplasmosis and its effect on 1) australian marsupials or 2) wildlife management #dm me lol #but im doing good!! im just very busy and i cant wait to not be busy and complain about being being bored instead #unis actually been super good idk if its just different here or if its bc im older and more ~experienced~ (on higher medication) #but either way ill take it!! #i hope im not too late for this joke #anyway: goodnight!! smooches #also can you tell i had no idea what to do for the background?????? lmfao #gn!!!

[ax-ending]

im having fun with the shadowbringers patches :3

(pls no spoilers in tags/replies for 5.4 onward)

#ffxiv #g'raha tia #he has given me toxoplasmosis. i have loving catboy brainworms

[mantisgodsdomain]

Have been semi-rotating Mad Rat Dead recently, not for any particular writing reason, but because we took another look at the one Bug Fables cross it has and the whole situation there is just... really, really funny to us. Imagine being a parasite and fucking up your time-travel-in-a-desperate-attempt-to-survive gambit badly enough that you wind up in a far future where all of your host species are extinct. Where do you even go from there? What are her plans? What is the gambit here? It's a whole Situation it's great

#we speak #mad rat dead spoilers #we guess. uhhh you all in the MRD fandom get this post now #hi hello we only think about MRD once in a blue moon and when we do it's almost purely rat god #we think she's a facinating depiction of toxoplasmosis gondii and we like tinkering with her through the lens of the irl parasite #we think that the potential link between toxoplasmosis being thought to cause schizophrenia and her whole Thing is very fun to look at #(although studies have shown its extremely unlikely t. gondii and schizophrenia are linked it's still fun to toy with outdated medicine) #we're a big fan of parasites and rat god is a VERY fun character! #we just think she's neat

[bpod-bpod]

Arresting Replication

Protein identified that is essential for the replication of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii – potential as a target to treat the disease it causes – toxoplasmosis – which can cause a range of symptoms; but maternal transmission poses particular risks to the foetus including abnormalities or abortion

Read the published research paper here

Image from work by Rebecca R. Pasquarelli and colleagues

Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in PLOS Pathogens, October 2023

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#science #biomedicine #immunofluorescence #biology #parasites #toxoplasmosis #toxoplasma gondii

[mcgruffthecrimedog]

Trying to pet every cat in the world. On that toxoplasmosis grindset

#cats #toxoplasmosis

[cuddledot]

625,000 people die from malaria every year.

if youre implying mosquitoes cause malaria youre wrong, its the parasite, plus mosquitoes only get them from an infected host. Theyre vector, not causing disease, just spreads them cuz they get it from another host that has it. So basically mosquitoes are just the cars and the Plasmodiums is the passenger.

Also counterarguement.... Other animals spread diseases to another (not saying its not a concern, it should and we do need to take precautions so don'ttwist my words) Hell, so is other animals, whether from diseases or general attacks.

Its just weird to single out mosquitoes for One single bad thing but their are other animals whether they're vectors or cause the disease that does the same thing. I could go on how mosquitoes are essential to food chain for fish and birds or how theyre also pollinators but then again, like I said, 'they don't need to have some overall good purpose or soemthing to convince you they are deserving of living'

If anything, its just pretty much they just conventionally being linked throughout the ecosystem. Like I said. Move around the food chain. But I digress.

Its fine that to be bothered by them because nuisance but saying they should die off completely is just weird. :T

#asks #anonymous #cant believe putting this much energy #btw im not undermining the deaths of malaria #but if youre gonna apply that logic apply to other shit like mad cow disease rabies and toxoplasmosis #again no Bug Hate Zone

[revon-aurora-borealis]

are.... are people ok?

i dont understand why so many people get so offended that you reply to them after like 6 months of them posting a comment to the point they fucking insult you for it

and ive only ever had it from people on yt too, tumblr users dont care, reddit users dont care, twitter users dont care either

but yt users? theyll fucking tear you to shreds over it... why tf bro... i dont understand, i didnt kill your family bro just wtf bro

#vent post #vent #youtube #internet #some people are just why #why #why bro #why the actual fuck #this is tame response compared to some ive seen #only time i understand is if its a heated arguement #but this was just like... a thread abt toxoplasmosis bruh #atill feeling rage may needa vent more #is it unhealthy for me to vent so much? #ive been told by reddit users before #isnt the point of venting to just #get something off your mind? #and not do something that hurts others? #what am i supposed to just bittle this shit up until i explode? #im already bottling up a shit ton already #ugh i dont wanna go to sleep like this #fuck #fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck #am i stupid for being irritated by this #im imsecure so insults like these freak me out and feel like i needs prove myself #i fucking hate life #i hate people #why am i like this #how much of a problem am i #damn i kinda wanna cry #hmmm uh this might be pms

[ringneckedpheasant]

alistair (the cat) probably thinks Stinky, Smelly, Rude, and Nasty Boy are compliments bc of how often I pick him up and tell him he is stinky and rude while kissing his little baby face

#creamsicle warden #marc.txt #I like to tell him he smells like toxoplasmosis

[spikyshores]

dkljfghd. hi cynte. when i said i was gonna be inconsistent i meant it

i'm excited for whenever roguelike mode comes out because it would definitely be healthy for me to have something sucking up as much of my nonexistent free time as the binding of isaac did for a good year or so. also i still pronounce his name as "sin-tee" or "sinté" in my head because the one syllable sounds weird to me idk (hypocritical for someone with a constantly mispronounced, non-english-phonetic name like me to say but what are you gonna do about it)

#endoparasitic #cynte #the molecule is pyrimethamine which is one chemical used to treat toxoplasmosis #well that's what it's supposed to be. it's not actually drawn legibly enough to identify #digital #s