Toxoplasma gondii emerging out from fibroblasts

[awsome5ful]

weres the microscopic uav wen you need one!!!!!

[tortugoman]

hello... it would be nice of you if you put more informatión about your video.... i mean like:

-Host, technique, info about Toxoplasma gondii and toxoplasmosis,

Very nice video by the way...

[sreesnake]

@tortugoman ...I did leave a short description. This videos shows tachyzoites of T. gondii emerging out from a ruptured fibroblast, grown in cell culture. The video was shot using a Sony handycam placed over the eyepiece of an interference contrast microscope.

[chanel0102]

WOOT!!! ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!!! >:D Get your shotguns ready, boys!!!!!!

[MrViele83]

that is a virus right its on dah

[X3miR]

my dad had also toxoplasmose

[xxpnoyjestrxx]

50% of the population has that rite? just doesnt really do anything as far as we kno, rite?

[sreesnake]

@xxpnoyjestrxx ..yes.The prevalence rates vary from 10-even 90% in some regions. Most are symptomless carriers though.

[xxpnoyjestrxx]

@sreesnake read the book "Peeps" by scott westerfeld. awesome book about how a similar parasite starts to emerge.

[sreesnake]

Mine? Thanks a bunch!!??

[ZOMIBErevolution]

this is your brain on worms.

[carveawoodeneye]

something all ways told me house cats would start the fucking zombie apocalypse !!

[munchyful]

I'm not sure what I'm looking at.

[sreesnake]

A one-celled parasite (Toxoplasma gondii...causes abortion in humans and death of AIDS patients) has entered a mammalian cell, multiplied into thousands , destroyed the cell and the thousands of new parasites are emerging out in search of new cells to destroy!!

[barakahasard]

@sreesnake

Great!

[zeetvdell]

@munchyful @ 0:12 its henry and susan to the left , going about bitching as usual ! and at 0:16 its ted at right , trying to sneak out of the party

[IDrinkAl0ne]

One question everyone here wants to know. Is there a cure? Also i have cats and i would hate to have been infected. How does the cat transfer the parasite to humans? can simply petting the cat make you infected? is the disease airborn? There are so many unanswered questions about this disease yet almost half the human population is infected by it.

[sreesnake]

If u have been rearing cats (which have access to 'outside world'...those which go out and hunt) then the chances of you already being infected is quite a possibility. The cats excrete billions of oocysts and these somehow get into food and water and infect people. In developed countries, transmission is mostly from 'rarely' cooked meat. Once infected, treatment is difficult and unreliable.

[sreesnake]

However, there is no reason for alarm as most 'normal' (immunocompetent) people don't show any symptoms but act as carriers for life. I personally have always maintained a very high sero titre, meaning that I am infected and have cysts in my brain. But so far, so good!! Touch wood :)

[pluskendall98]

this thing changes peoples behaver and brought things back to life now that i know 2012 wont bring the apocalypse zombies will 2012 will still happen its just that zombies will all die leaving human population to restart back from the B.C years with more tech i hope and with no religion i dont completely know i fond this on websites but god help if you can

[paintboy9]

@sreesnake rearing cats i know its immature but i find it to be hilarious that you said rearing and this parisite i think is found in intestines right?

[sreesnake]

Yes, in the intestines as well as extra-intestinal tissues (muscles, brain) of cat and mostly in neural tissues of non-feline (intermediate) hosts.

[pal000006]

i like zombies there awesome

[sreesnake]

Gabreil....im857....what you are witnessing is the destruction of a living mammalian cell by a protozoan parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite originally lives in cats but can cause the same scale of destruction in all mammals including man. It causes abortion in humans as well as death in AIDS patients and the like.

[Septum77]

Uh. These are nature's mind washers. Parasites that live in some unfortunate cat intestines that probably ate the Toxoplasma Gondii

[gabreilgarcia113]

I am sorry for sounding idiotic but what exactly is this ?

Care to explain ?

[im857]

lol im feeling the same atm ^_^

[atomicalbert]

No,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,­no,NO! IT's not amazing because they can be carried by all species of mammals including us!

[sreesnake]

Thanks! But to imagine that it happens to the brain cells (neuron)...eeeekk!!

[DerKriegerisch]

really amazing

[ceQQQQ]

amazing

[MELISSAHASHASH]

your videos are enlightening.

[juanlamon]

thats so awesome! i mean, the microscope image