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*Usually indirect
 
*Usually indirect
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**Reffered to as '''facultatively heterxenous'''
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**Intermediate host is not essential for completion of the life cycle
    
*Gametogeny (sexual stage) is host specific for felids
 
*Gametogeny (sexual stage) is host specific for felids
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**Can be transferred between intermediate hosts by carnivorism
 
**Can be transferred between intermediate hosts by carnivorism
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Toxoplasma can cause [[Pancreas Inflammatory - Pathology#Acute haemorrhagic pancreatitis|acute interstitial pancreatitis]] in systemic toxoplasmosis
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'''Pathogenesis'''
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*Toxoplasma can cause [[Pancreas Inflammatory - Pathology#Acute haemorrhagic pancreatitis|acute interstitial pancreatitis]] in systemic toxoplasmosis
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*''T. gondii'' in [[Respiratory Parasitic Infections - Pathology#Toxoplasmosis|pneumonia]]
 
*''T. gondii'' in [[Respiratory Parasitic Infections - Pathology#Toxoplasmosis|pneumonia]]
*''Toxoplasma gondii'', ''Sarcocystis'' and ''Neospora caninum'' in [[Muscles Inflammatory - Pathology#Protozoa|myositis]]
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*''Toxoplasma gondii'' causes [[Muscles Inflammatory - Pathology#Protozoa|myositis]]
    
==Sarcocystis==
 
==Sarcocystis==
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