Neurotoxoplasmosis diagnosis for HIV-1 patients by real-time PCR of cerebrospinal fluid

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-23

  Nogui, Fábio Luís Nascimento ^a,b   Mattas, Sandro ^a   Júnior, Gilberto Turcato ^a   Lewi, David Salomão ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Division of Neurology ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

AIDS; Cerebral toxoplasmosis; Real time polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DNA FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BRAIN DISEASE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CEPHALORACHIAN LIQUID; CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHORIORETINITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HERPES SIMPLEX MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORBIDITY; NEUROCRYPTOCOCCOSIS; NEUROSYPHILIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC NEURITIS; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; POLIOTRAUMATISM; PREDICTION; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ANIMAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; TOXOPLASMA;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL;

EID: 69249213759     PISSN: 14138670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1413-86702009000100006     Document Type: Article

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