Direct genotyping of animal and human isolates of Toxoplasma gondii from Colombia (South America)

Acta Tropica

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 161-167

  Gallego, Carolina ^a   Saavedra Matiz, Carlos ^b   Gómez Marín, Jorge Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL QUINDÍO   (Colombia)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Colombia; Congenital toxoplasmosis; Genotyping; Strains; Toxoplasma

Indexed keywords

GENOTYPE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIRD; CAT; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAG2 GENE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CATS; COLOMBIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREGNANCY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CAVIA PORCELLUS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 30644464298     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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