Spiramycin treatment of Toxoplasma gondii infection in pregnant women impairs the production and the avidity maturation of T. gondii-specific immunoglobulin G antibodies

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1517-1520

  Meroni, V ^a,b   Genco, F ^b   Tinelli, C ^b   Lanzarini, P ^b   Bollani, L ^b   Stronati, M ^b   Petersen, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; SPIRAMYCIN;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G AVIDITY INDEX; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCCIDIOSTATS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SPIRAMYCIN; TIME FACTORS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 70349679331     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00253-09     Document Type: Article

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