-CRB-Toxoplasma-
  • Collection name: Centre de Ressources Biologiques Toxoplasma
  • Acronym: CRB Toxoplasma
  • WDCM number: 1005
  • Institution: CHU de Reims, Pôle de Biologie Territoriale – Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne
  • Address:
    Rue du Général Koenig
    51092 Reims Cedex
    France
  • Website: http://www.toxocrb.com/
    Website of the catalogue or database of the collection:
  • Correspondence data:
    E-mail: crb-reims@wanadoo.fr
    Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 78 42 21
    Correspondent: Prof. Isabelle Villena

Member holdings

Group(s) of biological resources stored in the collection: protozoa.

The collection consists of more than 1000 strains (bradyzoites or tachyzoites) from different countries around the world. For some strains, DNA is available.

Services offered

  • Public and confidential deposit
  • Distribution
  • Services in cell and Toxoplasma gondii culture
  • Services in secured cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen (-196°C) or in a freezer (-80°C)

    • Research

  • Type IROP16 regulates retinal inflammatory responses during ocular toxoplasmosis. - PloS One
  • Severe toxoplasmosis imported from tropical Africa in immunocompetent patients: A case series. - Travel Med Infect Dis.
  • Toxoplasma gondii in beef consumed in France:regional variation in seroprevalence and parasite isolation. - Parasite
  • Disseminated toxoplasmosis associated with hemophagocytic syndrome after kidney transplantation: A case report and review. - Transpl Infect Dis.
  • The introduction of new hosts with human trade shapes the extant distribution of Toxoplasma gondii lineages. - PLoSNegl Trop Dis.
  • Pediatric Amazonian Toxoplasmosis Caused by Atypical Strains in French Guiana, 2002-2017. - Pediatr Infect Dis J
  • Virulence of atypical Toxoplasma gondii strains isolated in French Guiana in a murine model. - Parasite
  • Diversity of Toxoplasma gondii strains at the global level and its determinants. - Food and Waterborne Parasitology
  • Diversity of Toxoplasma gondii strains shaped by commensal communities of small mammals. - Int J Parasitol.
  • Toxoplasma Hypervirulence in the Rat Model Parallels Human Infection and Is Modulated by the Toxo1 Locus. - Front Cell Infect Microbiol.
  • Type I ROP16 regulates retinal inflammatory responses during ocular toxoplasmosis. - PLoS One.
  • Latent toxoplasmosis aggravates anxiety- and depressive-like behaviour and suggest a role of gene-environment interactions in the behavioural response to the parasite. - Behav Brain Res.

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