Table 2.

Experimental studies in sheep orally inoculated with Toxoplasma gondii oocysts or tissue cysts. Studies published since 2010.

Designation of Toxoplasma gondii isolate	Dose	Numbers and age category	Remarks	Reference
M4	3000	28 sheep	Inoculated with sporulated oocysts at day 90 of gestation	Gutierrez et al. (2010)
	500,000; 5000	16 lambs	Inoculated with sporulated oocysts.	Benavides et al. (2011)
	3000	9 sheep	Inoculated with sporulated oocysts at day 90 of gestation	O'Donovan et al. (2012)
	3000	15 sheep	Inoculated with sporulated oocysts at day 90 of gestation	Marques et al. (2012)
	2000; 500	24; 24 sheep	Inoculated with sporulated oocysts at day 90 of gestation (n = 24) and at day 120 (n = 24)	Castano et al. (2014)
	500	33 lambs	Inoculated with sporulated oocysts	Katzer et al. (2014)
	50	27 sheep	Inoculated with sporulated oocysts at three terms of gestation	Castano et al. (2016)
PRU	400; 400; 100	36; 54; 33 sheep	Inoculated with sporulated oocysts at mid-gestation	Mevelec et al. (2010)
	3000	13 lambs	Inoculated with tissue cysts	Verhelst et al. (2014)
	3000	4 sheep	Inoculated with tissue cysts	Verhelst et al. (2015)
P	200,000	4 rams	Inoculated with sporulated oocysts.	Lopes et al. (2011)
ME49; VEG	2500; 2500	20 sheep	Inoculated with sporulated oocysts at three terms of gestation of chronically infected ewes.	Dos Santos et al. (2016)
ME49	500; 50; 10	5; 5; 5 sheep	Inoculated with sporulated oocysts at day 90 of gestation	Sánchez-Sánchez et al. (2019)
TgShSp1	500; 50; 10	6; 6; 6 sheep	Inoculated with sporulated oocysts at day 90 of gestation	Sánchez-Sánchez et al. (2019)