Pursuing the secrets of a stealthy parasite | MIT News
Toxoplasma gondii, the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis, is believed to infect as much as one-third of the world’s population. Many of those people have no symptoms, but the parasite can remain dormant for years and later reawaken to cause disease in anyone who becomes immunocompromised. Why this single-celled parasite is so widespread, and what…