Toxoplasma gondii: Genotyping of strains from Brazilian AIDS patients with cerebral toxoplasmosis by multilocus PCR-RFLP markers

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 221-227

  Ferreira, Isabelle M R ^a   Vidal, José E ^b   Costa Silva, Thais A ^a   Meira, Cristina S ^a   Hiramoto, Roberto M ^a   Penalva de Oliveira, Augusto C ^b,c   Pereira Chioccola, Vera L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE INFECTOLOGIA EMÍLIO RIBAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AIDS; Brazilian patients; Cerebral toxoplasmosis; Toxoplasma gondii genotyping

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 37349130556     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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