Unusual abundance of atypical strains associated with human ocular toxoplasmosis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 184, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 633-639

  Grigg, Michael E ^a   Ganatra, Jyotsom ^b   Boothroyd, John C ^a   Margolis, Todd P ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VITREOUS BODY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0035450774     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/322800     Document Type: Article

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