Evaluation of loop-mediated isothermal amplification for detection of Toxoplasma gondii in water samples and comparative findings by polymerase chain reaction and immunofluorescence test (IFT)

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 357-365

  Sotiriadou, Isaia ^a,b   Karanis, Panagiotis ^a,b  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detection; IFT; LAMP; PCR; Toxoplasma gondii; Water

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; ISOTHERM; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; WATER;

EID: 56249115871     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.07.009     Document Type: Article

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