Parasite load in guinea pig foetus with real time PCR after maternofoetal transmission of Toxoplasma gondii

Parasite

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-140

  Flori, P ^a,c   Hafid, J ^b   Thonier, V ^a   Bellete, B ^a   Raberin, H ^a   Tran Manh Sung, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES GUÉLIZ   (Morocco)

^c HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

Congenital toxoplasmosis; Guinea pig; Parasite load; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; GUINEA PIG; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYBRIDIZATION; INOCULATION; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPLEEN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; SUS SCROFA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FETUS; GUINEA PIGS; MALE; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 0242351197     PISSN: 1252607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2003102133     Document Type: Article

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