Clinical validation of a western blot assay for congenital toxoplasmosis and newborn screening in a hospital in Armenia (Quindio) Colombia

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-112

  Gallego Marín, Carolina ^a   Henao, Ana Carolina ^a   Gómez Marín, Jorge Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL QUINDÍO   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLOMBIA; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATERNAL SERUM; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN SCREENING; PARASITE INCIDENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VALIDATION STUDY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; COLOMBIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 33645868975     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmi072     Document Type: Article

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