Spencer Magargal, MD
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Publications (7)

Top publication keywords:
Toxoplasmosis, AnimalProtozoan Infections, AnimalNeosporaSeals, EarlessSarcocystosisMammalsPacific OceanSelf-FertilizationDisease OutbreaksToxoplasmaHost-Parasite InteractionsCoccidiosisOttersToxoplasmosisSarcocystis

• Neospora caninum Infection in Marine Mammals Stranding in Northeastern Pacific Ocean Region.
  Emerging infectious diseases 2026 Raverty SA, Duignan P, Lambourn DM, Cottrell P, Gill VA, Tuomi P, Barbosa L, Cottrell B, Magargal SL, Gibson AK, Zhang ER, Grigg ME
• Protozoal-related mortalities in endangered Hawaiian monk seals Neomonachus schauinslandi.
  Diseases of aquatic organisms 2016 Barbieri MM, Kashinsky L, Rotstein DS, Colegrove KM, Haman KH, Magargal SL, Sweeny AR, Kaufman AC, Grigg ME, Littnan CL
• Polyparasitism is associated with increased disease severity in Toxoplasma gondii-infected marine sentinel species.
  PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2011 Gibson AK, Raverty S, Lambourn DM, Huggins J, Magargal SL, Grigg ME
• Self-mating in the definitive host potentiates clonal outbreaks of the apicomplexan parasites Sarcocystis neurona and Toxoplasma gondii.
  PLoS genetics 2010 Wendte JM, Miller MA, Lambourn DM, Magargal SL, Jessup DA, Grigg ME
• Identification of an atypical strain of toxoplasma gondii as the cause of a waterborne outbreak of toxoplasmosis in Santa Isabel do Ivai, Brazil.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2010 Vaudaux JD, Muccioli C, James ER, Silveira C, Magargal SL, Jung C, Dubey JP, Jones JL, Doymaz MZ, Bruckner DA, Belfort R, Holland GN, Grigg ME
• A protozoal-associated epizootic impacting marine wildlife: mass-mortality of southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) due to Sarcocystis neurona infection.
  Veterinary parasitology 2010 Miller MA, Conrad PA, Harris M, Hatfield B, Langlois G, Jessup DA, Magargal SL, Packham AE, Toy-Choutka S, Melli AC, Murray MA, Gulland FM, Grigg ME
• Ultrastructural and molecular confirmation of the development of Sarcocystis neurona tissue cysts in the central nervous system of southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis).
  International journal for parasitology 2009 Miller MA, Barr BC, Nordhausen R, James ER, Magargal SL, Murray M, Conrad PA, Toy-Choutka S, Jessup DA, Grigg ME