Long live the king: Toxoplasma gondii nucleomodulin inhibits necroptotic cell death.

Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that results in chronic infection of the central nervous system, but the basis for its ability to persist is unknown. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Rosenberg and Sibley (2021) identify a parasite effector produced by the latent bradyzoite stage that inhibits host cell necroptosis.