Toxoplasmosis : an important message for cat owners

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center for Global Health (U.S.). Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria
• Description:
  Cats get Toxoplasma infection by eating infected rodents, birds or other small animals, or anything contaminated with feces from another cat that is shedding the microscopic parasite in its feces. After a cat has been infected, it can shed the parasite for up to two weeks. The parasite becomes infective one to five days after it is passed in the feces of the cat. The parasite can live in the environment for many months and contaminate soil, water, fruits and vegetables, sandboxes, grass where animals graze for food, litter boxes, or any place where an infected cat may have defecated.
• Subjects:
  Cat Diseases Cats Toxoplasmosis Toxoplasmosis, Animal
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c4e40dff83b5e8bd2811db7ff30b4ac16f544b9e0fb1d7cb76185a312bb3ee0a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/23408/cdc_23408_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.56 MB ]