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Effect of irradiation on the viability of Toxoplasma gondii cysts in tissues of mice and pigs

Journal Article · · Am. J. Vet. Res.; (United States)
OSTI ID:5616607
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Muscles from tongue, heart, and limbs of 14 pigs inoculated orally with Toxoplasma gondii oocysts were irradiated with 10, 20, 25, and 30 krad of gamma (cesium-137 and cobalt-60) irradiation. Viability of T gondii cysts was assayed by feeding porcine muscles to T gondii-free cats and/or by inoculation of sediment from acid-pepsin digested porcine muscle into mice. Cats fed 500-g samples of muscles irradiated with up to 20 krad shed T gondii oocysts. Cats fed muscles irradiated with 25 or 30 krad did not shed oocysts. Mice were inoculated with 8 isolates of T gondii, and tissue cysts in their brains irradiated with up to 40 krad were infective to mice; however, there was a 10,000-fold reduction in the viability of organisms in tissue cysts irradiated with 40 krad, compared with that in nonirradiated cysts. At 50 krad of gamma irradiation, there were no detectable infective organisms in infected mouse brains.
Research Organization:
Animal Parasitology Institute, Beltsville, MD
OSTI ID:
5616607
Journal Information:
Am. J. Vet. Res.; (United States), Journal Name: Am. J. Vet. Res.; (United States) Vol. 3; ISSN AJVRA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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