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Observações complementares sôbre a presença do Toxoplasma gondii na saliva de pacientes com toxoplasmose

Through the intraperitoneal inoculation in mice the authors were able to show the presence of Toxoplasma gondii in the spittle of 12 (60%) bearers of toxoplasmosis. The total number of studied patients was twenty. This study represents a complement of a previous and preliminary one on the same subjetc. The presence of the parasite in the saliva is stressed because of its significance in the transmission of the disease.


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