According to estimates, about a third of the world's population is infected with the single-celled parasite Toxoplasma gondii, the pathogen of toxoplasmosis. Although harmless for most people, the ...

The study suggests that co-infection is an important source of variation in pathogen shedding between individual animals and could influence how likely a disease is to spread. Species similar to the ...

LMU parasitologists have shown how Toxoplasma recycles its cell envelope – and revealed an important difference to the malaria pathogen. According to estimates, about a third of the world’s population ...