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. (Human Disease Ontology, DOID_9965)
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10 genes co-occuring with the biological term toxoplasmosis in literature-supported statements describing functions of genes from the GeneRIF Biological Term Annotations dataset.