Toxoplasmosis: Epidemiology, Prevention and Control

The scientific motivation to publish this book comes from the increased interest in the study of toxoplasmosis shown all over the world. Though the T. gondii infection was first discovered in 1908, toxoplasmosis remains a current research topic, and there is a realm of questions and dilemmas that interest both veterinarians and human doctors. The increased prevalence of toxoplasmosis in humans and animals, as well as the difficulty of the coproscopic diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in cats, expensive serological examinations in both animals and humans, a lack of diagnostic methods accessible to veterinarians in slaughterhouses, and cultural and culinary differences in human patients, which can influence the prevalence of the disease, motivate the scientific and practical importance of the proposed book, and reveal the importance of this topic for animal and human health. So, the proposed book will contain information regarding the aetiology and history of Toxoplasma gondii infection and also the parasite’s morphology and biology. This work will contain a very detailed epidemiology of toxoplasmosis from all over the world and for all species of animals. This chapter will also include the personal findings of the authors about T. gondii seroprevalence in domestic animals from Romania. In the last part of the book, we will present the main methods for toxoplasma diagnosis. At the end of the book, we will synthesise the main routes for T. gondii infection and the recommendations for reducing toxoplasmosis seroprevalence.