toxoplasmosis (DOID:9965)
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Synonyms: disseminated toxoplasmosis
Alt IDs: DOID:13334, DOID:13339, DOID:13344, ICD10CM:B58, ICD9CM:130, ICD9CM:130.9, MESH:D014123, NCI:C3418, UMLS_CUI:C0040558
Definition: A coccidiosis that has_material_basis_in protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite effects most genera of warm-blooded animals, including humans, but the primary host is the felid (cat) family. Animals are infected by eating infected meat, by ingestion of feces of a cat that has itself recently been infected, or transmission_by mother to fetus. The symptoms include bilateral, nontender cervical or axillary lymphadenopathy, fever, malaise, myalgia, hepatosplenomegaly, anemia and leukopenia.