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However, serological assays are not enough for approving virulent T. gondii tissue cysts or confirm virulent types harboring animals so the current study was aimed to evaluate the zoonotic hazard of T. gondii seropositive Egyptian animals and aborted women via mice viability test and genotyping as excellent bio-indicators for virulent strains. Methodology: Both blood and the matching tissue samples were collected from 76 aborted women and 755 farm animals (254 sheep, 293 goats, 45 cows, 41 buffalos, 34 camels and 88 free range poultry). All samples were assayed serologically by using ELISA. The tissue samples which were identical to seropositive sera were digested and microscopically examined besides exposed to DNA detection and genotyping. The microscopic confirmed bradyzoites containing ones were bio-assayed through intra-peritoneal passage in mice as viability test. 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