New description of Toxoplasma gondii genotypes from French Polynesia.

[congenital toxoplasmosis]

We report here the first isolation and genotyping of two human Toxoplasma gondii strains from French Polynesia . The parasites had new and atypical genotypes , and were responsible for asymptomatic congenital toxoplasmosis . Both genotypes were divergent from the common strains isolated in Europe , North America , South America , Africa and China .