Real-time polymerase chain reaction for early diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in stem cell transplant recipients: Ready for prime time?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 79-81

  Chandrasekar, P H ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

AUTOPSY; BRAIN ABSCESS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIOSIS; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; STANDARDIZATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TIME; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 11144230275     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/426449     Document Type: Note

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