Warm-blooded animal toxoplasmosis and its connection to COVID-19: A review | ||
| Microbial Biosystems | ||
| Volume 7, Issue 1, June 2022, Pages 18-26 PDF (571.09 K) | ||
| Document Type: Reviews | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mb.2022.247310 | ||
| Author | ||
| Areej O. Bakhraibah | ||
| Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Jeddah, 21959 Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic illness that spreads from animals to people. Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan parasite that infects warm-blooded mammals, causes the sickness. Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic infection that causes abortion and death in animals. Cats are the parasite's sole sexual hosts, thus they're the only ones who can get it. Because cats are frequent pets, they are highly likely to come into touch with humans. As a result, the disease poses a risk to human health. The potential danger is influenced by the frequency of oocyst secretion and the level of contamination in the environment. Toxoplasmosis has serious consequences for both animal and human health, hence preventative actions should be taken to reduce the dangers. COVID-19 is affected by such methods as well. Toxoplasmosis is thought to increase immunological and immunosuppressive factors, which increases the chance of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the severity of the resulting COVID-19. Research into Toxoplasma gondii intermediate hosts might help understand COVID-19's dynamics and determine if the virus can be transferred from animals to humans. We explore what we know about Toxoplasma gondii infection as a human parasitosis and how it may alter the course of SARS-CoV-2 infection in this review study. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Toxoplasma gondii; Toxoplasmosis; SARS-CoV-2; Oocytes; warm-blood animals | ||
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