- Disease: Toxoplasmosis
- Definitive host: Cats
- Human is the intermediate host; also rats, pigs, cattle, sheep, and birds
- Location of tissue cysts in human: Various tissues – common in brain and skeletal and cardiac muscles
- Infective stage to human: Mature oocyst
- Diagnosis of infection in human: Mainly via immunological assays to detect antibodies; Stained biopsy tissues useful to detect tissue cysts
Morphological Features of Mature Oocysts
- Size: 10-12 µm in diameter
- Spherical with thick wall
- Contain two sporocysts
Found in infected cat faeces
