{"title":"mSphere of Influence: <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> tissue cysts-who are you calling dormant?","authors":"Robyn S Kent","doi":"10.1128/msphere.00028-25","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Robyn Kent studies how <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> chronic infections can persist in different tissues in the host and how latency is controlled to enable maintenance, transmission, and reactivation of the parasite. In this mSphere of Influence article, she reflects on how two papers from the laboratories of Dr. A. P. Sinai and Dr. L. D. Sibley have impacted her thinking on the chronic stage of <i>T. gondii</i> infections.</p>","PeriodicalId":19052,"journal":{"name":"mSphere","volume":" ","pages":"e0002825"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12039227/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"mSphere","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00028-25","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/3/12 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MICROBIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Robyn Kent studies how Toxoplasma gondii chronic infections can persist in different tissues in the host and how latency is controlled to enable maintenance, transmission, and reactivation of the parasite. In this mSphere of Influence article, she reflects on how two papers from the laboratories of Dr. A. P. Sinai and Dr. L. D. Sibley have impacted her thinking on the chronic stage of T. gondii infections.
期刊介绍:
mSphere™ is a multi-disciplinary open-access journal that will focus on rapid publication of fundamental contributions to our understanding of microbiology. Its scope will reflect the immense range of fields within the microbial sciences, creating new opportunities for researchers to share findings that are transforming our understanding of human health and disease, ecosystems, neuroscience, agriculture, energy production, climate change, evolution, biogeochemical cycling, and food and drug production. Submissions will be encouraged of all high-quality work that makes fundamental contributions to our understanding of microbiology. mSphere™ will provide streamlined decisions, while carrying on ASM''s tradition for rigorous peer review.