Congenital transmission of parasites in mice infected with TcI, TcII and TcVI.

See Figure 1 for group nomenclature; n = number of positive cases; N = total number of examined pups; the 8 congenitally-infected cases were detected by microscopic blood examination on D15 or D30 after birth; all the other examined pups remained negative at microscopic blood examinations on D15 or D30 and blood/heart qPCR studies performed on animals sacrificed after CP-treatment (see the results section); parenthesis in the congenital transmission rate column indicate the estimated theoretical maximum rate of congenital infection according to the numbers of studied pups per mouse group.