Real-time quantitative PCR in cerebral toxoplasmosis diagnosis of Brazilian human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 641-647

  Mesquita, Rafael T ^a   Ziegler, Ǎngela P ^b   Hiramoto, Roberto M ^a   Vidal, Jose E ^b,c   Pereira Chioccola, Vera L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE INFECTOLOGIA EMÍLIO RIBAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; BRAZIL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DNA PRIMERS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL;

EID: 77953007034     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.016261-0     Document Type: Article

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