Figure 1 Toxoplasma gondii life cycle
A parasite is an organism that lives in or on another organism — its host — and gains benefit from the host without necessarily giving anything back. Parasitism is very common and most animals will be parasitised at some stage in their life, if not throughout their whole life.
Infection
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