The virus is transmitted through saliva and brain or nervous system tissue and become noninfectious when it dries out and is exposed to sunlight, the site states.
Explain that the majority of ophalmologists and rheumatologists surveyed were unaware of and did not follow treatment guidelines for noninfectious uveitis.
In the new study, researchers purchased grocery store blueberries and infected them with two types of norovirus surrogates -- noninfectious viruses that behave like the pathogen.
As the sarcocyst matures, the small, rounded, noninfectious metrocytes give rise to crescent-shaped bodies called bradyzoites that are infections for the definitive host.