Prenatal diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis by duplex real-time PCR using fluorescence resonance energy transfer hybridization probes

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 85-88

  Rotondi, Mario ^a   Valenzano, Francesca ^a   Bilancioni, Elena ^a   Span, Gaetano ^a   Giorlandino, Claudio ^a,b  

^a Artemisia Medical Center   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amniocentesis; Congenital toxoplasmosis; PCR; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE PROBE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMNIOCENTESIS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0035102969     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0223(200102)21:2<85::AID-PD18>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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