Toxoplasmosis

I have at home a few cats who go out. I'm afraid that cat toxoplasmosis. What is the risk of transmission of this disease to humans?

The risk of transmission of pathogenic micro-organism here. Toxoplasmosis is a zoonosis, a disease transmitted from animals to humans. Affects cats and dogs, but one can only become infected from cats. Transmits the droppings of cats, which is contaminated eggs.
Toxoplasma are protozoa infecting the external environment with eggs - called oocysts. Toxoplasma gondii is one of the intracellular parasites infecting all warm-blooded animals, but which is unable to complete its development. Definitive hosts for Toxoplasma which are able to reproduce, only cats, including cats. Toxoplasmosis is a relatively widespread disease, affecting up to thirty percent of cats. Positive blood tests for toxoplasmosis every other person.
If an egg in a favorable environmentthe appropriate temperature and humid environments, make it the so-sporozoiti. Thus prepared egg waiting for their host. In the gastrointestinal tract of infected individuals from developing their tachyzoiti (show growing rapidly), which is spread through blood or lymph to target organs. The target organs are tissue cysts - bradyzoiti (show growing slowly). Zoiti in tissues trigger an immune response. After some time, there is immune balance.
Cats excreted oocysts in the environment only in the active phase of the disease. Eggs in the external environment can be infectious months to years. Even some resist and disinfectants. Sick cats exclude eggs only in his youth, about the age of 3-8 months and only for a limited periodwhich is about three weeks. One gram of faeces can contain up to one million infected resistant and capable of eggs.
If the cat lives in the household, it is very important to identify the disease because of possible transmission to humans. Diagnosis of illness in cats is quite complicated. The affected animal is listless, lethargic, eats, noticeably lose weight, temperature is often high and the current administration does not respond to antibiotics. Occasionally, the disease manifests as inflammation of the lungs. Toxoplazmove tissue cysts may also be present in skeletal muscle. It is accompanied by pain, muscle weakness and muscle loss if the disease affects the liver, jaundice appears. Other indicators include vomiting and diarrhea. If protists hit the central nervous system,neurological patients show clinical symptoms such as nekoordinace movement, walking in a circle, various forms of seizures. Very often owners can watch the signs in cats affected eye, such as prominent privirani eyelids to the light. Other affected eye can not diagnose a veterinarian.

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