History
The organism was first described in 1908 in Tunis by Charles Nicolle and Louis Manceaux within the tissues of the gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi). In the same year it was also described in Brazil by Alfonso Splendore in rabbits. The first viable T. gondii was isolated by Albert Sabin in 1937 from laboratory mice.
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