Isolamento e caracterização biológica e genotípica de Toxoplasma gondii (Nicolle e Manceaux, 1909) de gatos do estado de São Paulo / Isolation and biological and genotypic characterization of Toxoplasma gondii (Nicolle; Manceaux, 1909) from cats from São Paulo state, Brazil

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2004

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Toxoplasma gondii has a clonal population structure. Genotypic analysis of the SAG2 locus was performed to determine the occurrence of the different lineages of T. gondii (types I, II and III) in domestic cats. Antibodies to T. gondii were determined in serum samples of 237 cats from 15 counties in São Paulo state, Brazil, by the modified agglutination test (MAT). Antibodies (MAT ≥ 25) were found in 84 (35.4%) of 237 cats. Tissues (brain, heart, tongue and skeletal muscle) of 71 of the positive cats were bioassayed in mice (five mice per group). Forty-seven isolates were obtained. Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) in PCR-amplified SAG2 products revealed that 34 isolates (72.4%) were type I, 12 (25.5%) were type III and one (2.1%) was mixed with type I and type III. There was no type II isolate. Most of the type I isolates (23/34) killed all infected mice and most of the type III isolates (7/12) killed no infected mice. Tissue cysts were found in mice infected with all 47 isolates. The genotype determination was also made directly from primary samples from cats (tissue homogenates) using nested-PCR-RFLP analysis. Characterization of the SAG2 locus was successful in 80.4% (37/46) of the samples tested. Genotypes obtained from primary samples were the same as those from the corresponding isolates. The mixed genotype was confirmed by direct DNA sequencing of PCR products from the isolate and from the cat primary sample and samples from the five mice infected with this isolate were sequenced. Three had type III genotype, one had type I, and one had type I + type III, demonstrating that mixed infections can originate different patterns of infection in a host.

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isolates gatos characterization gats molecular genotypes isolados caracterização genótipos toxoplasma gondii molecular toxoplasma gondii

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