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Oral Sex as a Potential Route for Toxoplasma Gondii Transmission: Experiment with Human Semen and Laboratory Mice Model.

Jana UllmannPetr KodymJaroslav FlegrDagmar BerenováSimona JirsováŠárka Kaňková
Published in: Acta parasitologica (2024)
We have not demonstrated the transmission of Toxoplasma to mice by oral exposure to semen from infected men. While this does not conclusively rule out the possibility of such transmission in humans, the results suggest that, if it does occur, this mode of transmission is likely infrequent.
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