Why hasn't anyone put the staggering male to female birth rate of Asia with the T. Gondii virus? It can live in felines and that's a staple of Asian cuisine. The asians are haveing males at the rate of 3-1, something like that, and studies in Europe have shown that hosts infected with the T.Gondii have an 88% chance of having a male offspring.
@00kelevra00 ...I am not sure the two are linked. Felines aren't favoured food and anyway it doesn't need one to eat a cat to get the disease. The sex ratio in some places is definitely skewed in favour of males for other reasons...like preference to male child and female infanticide.
@sreesnake Female infanticide hasn't been practiced, (as far as i know) since the 70's. the T.Godii virus lives in mice, who in turn, hunt down the cats, who eat the mice and end up in the stool of the cats, and the process starts over. (I'm sure you've read all this already.) Despite the female infanticide, the Asians of certain locations are having male children at an alarming rate and so far no one has been able to pin why.
@00kelevra00 .. unfortunately female infanticide is still practiced in many parts. In India Ultrasonography for sex determination of fetus is banned to prevent this practice. Secondly, T. gondii is a protozoan and not a virus. It is a protozoan of the cat (and not the mouse) and all other vertebrates (including humans) are intermediate hosts.
@sreesnake I see. But the Cat gets the protozoan from a mouse. Correct? The article I read said that with the T. Gondii in the host mouse, the protozoan will make the mouse hunt out a larger predator to be eaten.
@00kelevra00 ..yes true. The cat can get infected (1) from its mother through placenta (2) from the soil eating the oocysts and (3) by eating any other infected vertebrate (including mouse), which is the preferred route. I have isolated all my strains from the hearts of free-range domestic chicken!!
@00kelevra00 ..the finding is that infected mice (with bradyzoite tissue cysts of T. gondii in the brain) have altered behaviour (like losing their inherent fear of cats) and are more easily preyed upon.
@sreesnake That differs from what I read. The article I was reading said that the mice would, "Actively search out a predator." But it's besides the point. Could there be a common factor between this protozoan and the male birth rates in Asia?
@sreesnake The logical conclusion is that since this is a characteristic trait of the T. Gondii Virus, it should be researched in pregnant Asian women.
Hoe long does it take to the parasite to grow inside these cells???. I have cultured them in VERO cells, and i takes 2 weeks, but never in Fibroblasts.
Why hasn't anyone put the staggering male to female birth rate of Asia with the T. Gondii virus? It can live in felines and that's a staple of Asian cuisine. The asians are haveing males at the rate of 3-1, something like that, and studies in Europe have shown that hosts infected with the T.Gondii have an 88% chance of having a male offspring.
00kelevra00 1 year ago
@00kelevra00 ...I am not sure the two are linked. Felines aren't favoured food and anyway it doesn't need one to eat a cat to get the disease. The sex ratio in some places is definitely skewed in favour of males for other reasons...like preference to male child and female infanticide.
sreesnake 1 year ago
@sreesnake Female infanticide hasn't been practiced, (as far as i know) since the 70's. the T.Godii virus lives in mice, who in turn, hunt down the cats, who eat the mice and end up in the stool of the cats, and the process starts over. (I'm sure you've read all this already.) Despite the female infanticide, the Asians of certain locations are having male children at an alarming rate and so far no one has been able to pin why.
00kelevra00 1 year ago
@00kelevra00 .. unfortunately female infanticide is still practiced in many parts. In India Ultrasonography for sex determination of fetus is banned to prevent this practice. Secondly, T. gondii is a protozoan and not a virus. It is a protozoan of the cat (and not the mouse) and all other vertebrates (including humans) are intermediate hosts.
sreesnake 1 year ago
@sreesnake I see. But the Cat gets the protozoan from a mouse. Correct? The article I read said that with the T. Gondii in the host mouse, the protozoan will make the mouse hunt out a larger predator to be eaten.
00kelevra00 1 year ago
@00kelevra00 ..yes true. The cat can get infected (1) from its mother through placenta (2) from the soil eating the oocysts and (3) by eating any other infected vertebrate (including mouse), which is the preferred route. I have isolated all my strains from the hearts of free-range domestic chicken!!
sreesnake 1 year ago
@00kelevra00 ..the finding is that infected mice (with bradyzoite tissue cysts of T. gondii in the brain) have altered behaviour (like losing their inherent fear of cats) and are more easily preyed upon.
sreesnake 1 year ago
@sreesnake That differs from what I read. The article I was reading said that the mice would, "Actively search out a predator." But it's besides the point. Could there be a common factor between this protozoan and the male birth rates in Asia?
00kelevra00 1 year ago
@sreesnake The logical conclusion is that since this is a characteristic trait of the T. Gondii Virus, it should be researched in pregnant Asian women.
00kelevra00 1 year ago
It takes about a week for a cell to lyse...quicker in macrophage cell lines.
sreesnake 2 years ago
Hoe long does it take to the parasite to grow inside these cells???. I have cultured them in VERO cells, and i takes 2 weeks, but never in Fibroblasts.
TheMASTERCELL 2 years ago