Biological Resource Center for Toxoplasma

Abstract

The Biological Resource Center (BRC) for Toxoplasma gondii is a certified structure (NF S96-900 standard) that manages the storage of Toxoplasma gondii strains (protozoan parasite) and strain derivatives from human or animal toxoplasmosis to make them available to the scientific community.

Toxoplasma gondii Genotyping: A Closer Look Into Europe

“…Later, pioneering long term activities in sampling T. gondii isolates world wide ( e.g. , [ Lehmann et al., 2006 ; Dubey et al., 2020c ]), the establishment of a Toxoplasma Biological Resource Centre located in France ( Rocaboy et al., 2020 ), or the release of the specific genomic database ToxoDB ( ), provided an excellent and continuing foundation for further population genetic analyses.…”

“…Standardization of typing methods is definitively necessary for the integration of genetic data. The BRC biobank (Biological Resource Center for Toxoplasma, ) was one of the approaches that comes closest to this objective, storing around 1500 strains from different hosts (humans or animals) and from different countries around the world, all genotyped by the widely applied 15 MS markers ( Ajzenberg et al., 2010 ; Rocaboy et al., 2020 ). There are important limitations of traditional methodologies used for T. gondii typing, because only quite specific and restricted sites within a large T. gondii genome are assessed.…”