New description of Toxoplasma gondii genotypes from French Polynesia.

Hélène Yera (1) , Daniel Ajzenberg (2, 3, 4) , Florence Lesle (1) , Dominique Eyrolle-Guignot , Marianne Besnard , Alain Baud , Amandine Georges , Jean Dupouy-Camet (1) , Marie-Laure Dardé (2, 3, 4)

1 IC UM3 (UMR 8104 / U1016) - Institut Cochin
2 NET - Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale
3 UNILIM - Université de Limoges
4 CNR Toxoplasmose-Toxoplasma BRC - Centre National de Référence (CNR) Toxoplasmose/Toxoplasma Biological Resource Center (BRC)

We report here the first isolation and genotyping of two human Toxoplasma gondii strains from French Polynesia. The parasites had new and atypical genotypes, and were responsible for asymptomatic congenital toxoplasmosis. Both genotypes were divergent from the common strains isolated in Europe, North America, South America, Africa and China.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Santé publique et épidémiologie

Hélène Yera, Daniel Ajzenberg, Florence Lesle, Dominique Eyrolle-Guignot, Marianne Besnard, et al.. New description of Toxoplasma gondii genotypes from French Polynesia.. Acta Tropica, 2014, 134, pp.10-2. ⟨hal-01208012⟩