Prenatal diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1107-1111

  Antsaklis, Aris ^a   Daskalakis, George ^a,c   Papantoniou, Nikolaos ^a   Mentis, Andreas ^b   Michalas, Stylianos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Department of Bacteriology   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amniocentesis; Cordocentesis; Prenatal diagnosis; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORDOCENTESIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INOCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROCONVERSION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TOXOPLASMA;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CORDOCENTESIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0036900446     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.476     Document Type: Article

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