**Meet the editor**

Dr Olgica Djurković-Djaković received both her medical degree and her PhD from the University of Belgrade, Serbia (then Yugoslavia), where she has pursued a scientific career ever since. Her research interest involves parasitic zoonoses, focusing on Toxoplasma gondii infection, a field in which she has published extensively. She is currently Head of the Centre of Excellence for

Toxoplasmosis and Medical Entomology at the University of Belgrade Institute for Medical Research and Head of the Serbian Reference Laboratory for Toxoplasmosis. Dr Djurković-Djaković is also President of the Serbian Society of Parasitologists.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Section 1 Epidemiology and Epizootiology 1** 

Chapter 1 **The Life Cycle of** *Toxoplasma gondii* **in the Natural Environment 3**  Emmanuelle Gilot-Fromont, Maud Lélu, Marie-Laure Dardé, Céline Richomme,

Dominique Aubert, Eve Afonso, Aurélien Mercier,

Cécile Gotteland and Isabelle Villena

and Olgica Djurković-Djaković

**– The Last 10 Years 55**  Eva Bartova and Kamil Sedlak

Chapter 4 **Toxoplasmosis in Livestock** 

Chapter 6 **Endemic** *Toxoplasma gondii*

Pikka Jokelainen

Chapter 2 *Toxoplasma gondii* **Infection in South-East Europe: Epidemiology and Epizootiology 37**  Branko Bobić, Ivana Klun, Aleksandra Nikolić

Chapter 3 **Toxoplasmosis in Animals in the Czech Republic** 

**and Pet Animals in Slovakia 75** 

**Section 2 Molecular Diagnosis and Epidemiology 101** 

**Genotype II Causes Fatal Infections** 

Chapter 5 **Molecular Detection and Genotyping** 

Alexandra Valencakova and Pavol Balent

Lenka Luptakova, Eva Petrovova, David Mazensky,

**of** *Toxoplasma gondii* **from Clinical Samples 103** 

**in Animal Hosts in Europe – Lessons Learnt 121** 

Vladimir Ivović, Marija Vujanić, Tijana Živković, Ivana Klun and Olgica Djurković-Djaković
