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High Resolution Low Voltage Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy on De-Embedded Thick Sections Reveals Structural Interactions of the Surface of the Apicomplexan Parasite Toxoplasma Gondii with the Host Cell in the Parasitophorous Vacuole

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

Heide Schatten ,
David Sibley  and
Hans Ris
Heide Schatten
Affiliation:
Dept. of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO65211
David Sibley
Affiliation:
Dept. of Molecular Microbiology, Washington Univ. School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO63110
Hans Ris
Affiliation:
Dept. of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI53706
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The protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii represents a large group of Apicomplexan parasites with a highly unusual motility system that is crucial for cell locomotion and host cell invasion. Studying the motility system and interactions with host cells will increase our knowledge on how to prevent infection. Apicomplexan parasites can cause considerable health problems to animals including sheep, goats, pigs, and chicken. Eimeria is known as a pathogen of coccidiosis in chicken, and Cryptosporidium causes cryptospiridiosis in cattle and other farm animals. Toxoplasma gondii can cause infection that results in abortion, central nervous disorders and death of stressed and immunocompromised farm animals. Common to all Apicomplexan parasites is an unconventional motility system that is thought to be actively involved in host-cell invasion. However, the structural and biochemical characterization of Apicomplexan parasites has proven more difficult than previously thought because of genetic and behavioral differences of the parasites’ cytoskeletal proteins that differ from those in well studied mammalian systems.

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Microorganisms: The Good, The Bad, The Unusual
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 6 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis 2000, Microscopy Society of America 58th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 34th Annual Meeting, Microscopical Society of Canada/Societe de Microscopie de Canada 27th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 13-17, 2000 , August 2000 , pp. 648 - 649
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America

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