Toxoplasma-induced Behavioral Changes: An Aspecific Consequence of Neuroinflammation

Jianchun Xiao

doi:10.1016/j.pt.2020.01.005

Toxoplasma-induced Behavioral Changes: An Aspecific Consequence of Neuroinflammation

Jianchun Xiao

School of Medicine

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Abstract

A key strategy that many parasites use to facilitate transmission involves behavioral modification of their hosts. Toxoplasma gondii has been taken as an example for this strategy. A recent study by Boillat et al. reported that attraction to predator odor following Toxoplasma infection is not specific to felines.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	317-318
Number of pages	2
Journal	Trends in parasitology
Volume	36
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2020.01.005
State	Published - Apr 2020

Keywords

Toxoplasma gondii
behaviors
cyst burden
inflammation
predator avoidance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Parasitology
Infectious Diseases

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