Lindsay, David S.Dubey, Jitender P.2014-06-202014-06-202009-08David S. Lindsay and J. P. Dubey (2009). "Long-Term Survival of Toxoplasma gondii Sporulated Oocysts in Seawater," Journal of Parasitology, Vol. 95, No. 4, pp. 1019-1020. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1645/GE-1919.10022-3395http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49056Toxoplasma gondii is now recognized as an important pathogen in costal marine mammals. Oocysts from cat feces are believed to be washed into seawater and serve as a source of infection via transport hosts. Experimentally, it has been demonstrated that T. gondii oocysts can sporulate in seawater and remain infectious for mice for up to 6 me. The present study examined the long-term survival of T. gondii in seawater (15 ppt NaCl) kept at 4 C or at room temperature. Oocysts kept at 4 C for 24 into were orally infections for mice, while those kept at room temperature for 24 mo were not.application/pdfenIn Copyrightsea otterstransmissionparasitologyArticle - Refereedhttp://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1645/GE-1919.1https://doi.org/10.1645/ge-1919.1