Type i strains in human toxoplasmosis: Myth or reality?

Future Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 841-843

  Ajzenberg, Daniel ^a,b  

^a DUPUYTREN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EYE INFECTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 77953237672     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.10.55     Document Type: Editorial

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