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Infected cats excrete spore-packed oocysts in their feces, which can survive on plants or in soil or water.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 24, 2022

Toxoplasmosis is specific to cat feces because cats are the only animals that can defecate Toxoplasma gondii eggs, which are known as oocysts.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2019

The parasite’s infectious eggs, called oocysts, are excreted via cat feces; a single cat can excrete hundreds of millions of oocysts, which remain infectious and persist in the environment long after the feces have disappeared.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2017

But it turns out that oocysts washed into the sea from rivers and streams can remain viable in the bodies of cold-blooded creatures such as mussels and snails.

From Nature • Mar. 28, 2017

At the base of these oocysts appear the presumed antheridia, that is to say, one or two slender filaments, which generally turn their extremities towards the oocysts, and which more rarely are applied to them.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)