Publications

an outbreak of toxoplasmosis in an ontario chinchilla herd.	an outbreak of toxoplasmosis which killed 44 of a herd of 56 chinchillas and produced 4 abortions with the loss of a total of five fetuses is reported. a wild mouse thought to be the house mouse (mus musculus), caught in a trap in the basement housing the chinchillas, was found to be infected with toxoplasma gondii. the suggestion is made of the existence of a reservoir of infestation in wildlife with wild rodents implicated in this case as possible transmitters of the disease. the post mortem f ...	1964	17649492
[double infection of the brain with frenkelia species and toxoplasma gondii in chinchilla laniger].	two caged chinchillas that died with convulsions had a focal necrotic meningoencephalitis of toxoplasmic origin. independently of and remote from this inflammatory reaction were several lobulated frenkelia cysts up to 0.6 mm diameter in the brain. morphologically and in the way they stained they resembled frenkelia in various microtus-species and in ondatra zibethica. although toxoplasmosis commonly is found in the chinchilla this is the first report of frenkelia in this species. ecological cons ...	1977	855142