Incubation period
From 10 to 23 days after ingestion of insufficient prepared meat, from 5 to 20 days after contact with the infected cat.
Infectiousness Period
There is no transmission from one person to another, except for intrauterine transmission, from mother to fetus (2, 3.8). The oocysts that are removed from cats sporulate and become infectant within 1-5 days and may remain infectious in water or into wet soil for one year. Cysts from meat of infected animals remains infectious as long as the meat is edible and insufficiently prepared by heat.

