It sounds like a guarantee they are found in large cats. So, I suppose the rule that infestation chance increases with age(in human studies) is also true for cats.
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/1/127.full
"This is rather surprising because __large cats__ are __definitive hosts__ of Toxoplasma, and monkeys and apes are a regular component of their prey. It may be that the difference in the effects of the smell of cat and tiger urine on human behaviour is due to the fact that the important pheromone felinine is present in the urine of small cats (Felinae subfamily) but absent in the urine of large cats (Pantherinae subfamily) (Hendriks et al., 1995)."
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