Diagnostic value of specific local antibody production and nucleic acid amplification technique-nested polymerase chain reaction (nPCR) in clinically suspected ocular toxoplasmosis

Ocular Immunology and Inflammation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-112

  Mahalakshmi, B ^a   Therese, K Lily ^a   Madhavan, H N ^a   Biswas, J ^a  

^a VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

B1 gene; Nested polymerase chain reaction (nPCR); Toxoplasma gondii; Toxoplasmosis; Witmer Desmonts coefficient

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHORIORETINITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EYE INFLAMMATION; GENE TARGETING; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; AQUEOUS HUMOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR;

EID: 33645756855     PISSN: 09273948     EISSN: 17445078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09273940500545692     Document Type: Article

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