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The outcome of primary infection depends on the immune status of the host, as well as the location of and degree of injury caused by tissue cysts. Primary infection normally results in chornic disease, where tissue cysts form but clinical signs are not normally apparent. In immunodeficient animals, or in animals with concurrent illness, chronic infections may become symptomatic as the organism is allowed to proliferate. Acute primary infection in these animals can, rarely, prove fatal.  

The outcome of primary infection depends on the immune status of the host, as well as the location of and degree of injury caused by tissue cysts. Primary infection normally results in chornic disease, where tissue cysts form but clinical signs are not normally apparent. In immunodeficient animals, or in animals with concurrent illness, chronic infections may become symptomatic as the organism is allowed to proliferate. Acute primary infection in these animals can, rarely, prove fatal.  

The mechanism of  clinical disease in chronic toxoplasmosis is not fully understood, but may be related to low-level tachyzoite replication, or intermittent antigenaemia and parasitemia² have been detected in experimentally

The mechanism of  clinical disease in chronic toxoplasmosis is not fully understood, but may be related to low-level tachyzoite replication, or intermittent antigenaemia and parasitemia². The pathogenesis of disease could also be associated with immunological reactions against the organism through formation and deposition of immune complexes, and delayed hypersensitivity reactions³.

inoculated cats (Burney and others 1999). The pathogenesis of disease could also be associated with immunological reactions against the organism through formation and deposition of immune complexes, and delayed hypersensitivity reactions³.

==Signalment==

==Signalment==