Diagnosis of toxoplasmosis after allogeneic stem cell transplantation: Results of DNA detection and serological techniques

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Fricker Hidalgo, Hélène ^a   Bulabois, Claude Eric ^a   Brenier Pinchart, Marie Pierre ^a   Hamidfar, Rebecca ^a   Garban, Frédéric ^a   Brion, Jean Paul ^a   Timsit, Jean François ^a   Cahn, Jean Yves ^a   Pelloux, Hervé ^a  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PYRIMETHAMINE; PYRIMETHAMINE SULFADIAZINE; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMARY INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SEROLOGY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 58749090182     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/595709     Document Type: Article

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