Toxoplasma Gondii and Molecular Diagnosis

Banucicek Yucesan (Author)

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Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic disease that exists in many countries around the world, can affect many vertebrates, including birds, and is extremely concerning for hygienic conditions. That protozoan was first detected in the rodent Ctenodactylus gundi by Nicolle and Manceaux (1908) in Tunisia. Later, in 1909, this parasite was identified as a new protozoan [...]

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    First Page57
    Last Page82
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.69860/nobel.9786053359524.4
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    Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic disease that exists in many countries around the world, can affect many vertebrates, including birds, and is extremely concerning for hygienic conditions. That protozoan was first detected in the rodent Ctenodactylus gundi by Nicolle and Manceaux (1908) in Tunisia. Later, in 1909, this parasite was identified as a new protozoan and was named T. gondii (Nicolle and Manceaux 1909). Wolf et al. (1939) revealed congenital toxoplasmosis for the first time and its transplacental transmission was elucidated. The entire development and biology of tissue cysts and bradyzoites were explained by Dubey et al. (1998). The first acquired case was reported by Sabin (1941) as encephalitis in a child. Later, the Sabin Feldman Dye test, which is still accepted as the gold standard today, was described (Sabin and Feldman, 1948). Definitive and intermediate hosts of T. gondii were described by Frenkel et al. (1970) and it was proven that felines produce fecal oocysts. Today, T. gondii is a protozoan that is well known morphologically and molecularly, and much progress has been made in its identification. This study is a study examining molecular approaches for T. gondii.

    Banucicek Yucesan (Author)
    Assistant Professor, Çankırı Karatekin University
    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-3045
    3Asist. Prof. Dr. Banuçiçek Yücesan was born in Ankara in 1968. She graduated from Trakya University Faculty of Medicine in 1991 with first place. She started her career as a medical doctor at Ankara Training and Research Hospital in 1991. During her duty, she worked in the Emergency Service, Organ Transplantation and Blood Bank. Between 2004 and 2019, she served in various positions as PhD. MD. at the Ministry of Health, General Directorate of Public Health, Consumer Safety and Parasitology Reference Laboratories. She completed his doctorate in Forensic Chemistry and Forensic Toxicology in 2002, and her second doctorate in Veterinary Parasitology in 2021. She started her academic life as a Asistant Prof. Dr. at Çankırı Karatekin University in 2019. She currently continues as the Head of the Department of Control of Zoonotic Diseases. She has given many lectures in the field of Parasitology and Health Sciences. She has advised and graduated many Turkish and Foreign graduate students in the field of Parasitology and Health Sciences. She worked as an executive and researcher in Scientific Research and TÜBİTAK projects within the university. She has published many articles in the serological, molecular and genome fields of parasitology (Ticks, T. gondii, Leishmania, Echinococcus and Babesia etc.). She attended many national and international congresses as a speaker and presented papers. She works as a publication editor in the Eurasian Journal of Health Sciences, published within the university. She has written chapters in national and international books and her published articles have received numerous citations.

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