Rapid genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii by pyrosequencing

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 424-429

  Edvinsson, Benjamin ^a   Darde M L ^b   Pelloux, H ^c   Evengard B ^a   Stray Pedersen, B ^d   Ferguson, D ^d   Nowakowska, D ^d   Guy, E ^d   Derouin, F ^d   Jenum, P ^d   Buffalano, W ^d   Szenasi Z ^d  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Laboratoire de Parasitologie Mycologie   (Sweden)

^c GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Genotyping; Lineages; PCR; Pyrosequencing; Toxoplasma gondii; Typing

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; GRA6 PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33847791839     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01661.x     Document Type: Article

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