Toxoplasma gondii detection by nested polymerase chain reaction in lens aspirate and peripheral blood leukocyte in congenital cataract patients: The first report from a tertiary eye hospital in India

Current Eye Research

Volumn 32, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 653-657

  Mahalakshmi, B ^a   Therese, K Lily ^a   Shyamala, G ^a   Devipriya, U ^a   Madhavan, H N ^a  

^a VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

B1 gene of T. gondii; Nested PCR for T. gondii; T. gondii in congenital cataract; T. gondii in lens aspirate

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INDIA; INFANT; LENS IMPLANT; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LEUKOCYTES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR;

EID: 34548634408     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02713680701471123     Document Type: Article

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