First description of human toxoplasmosis
In 1937, Albert Sabin and Peter Olitsky demonstrated that the parasiteToxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) was an obligate intracellular parasite and that mice fed T. gondii-contaminated tissue contracted the infection.
Congenital human toxoplasmosis had been described In 1923, but not yet identified.
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Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Credit: Photo: Microscoic image of toxoplasma gondii oocyst. Courtesy: Shutterstock.
