Association of ocular toxoplasmosis with type I Toxoplasma gondii strains: Direct genotyping from peripheral blood samples

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4262-4264

  Switaj, Karolina ^a   Master, Adam ^b   Borkowski, Piotr Karol ^a   Skrzypczak, Magdalena ^b   Wojciechowicz, Jacek ^b   Zaborowski, Piotr ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b DNA Research Institute   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33750933977     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01786-06     Document Type: Article

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