Placental testing for toxoplasma gondii is not useful to diagnose congenital toxoplasmosis

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 665-667

  Filisetti, Denis ^a   Cocquerelle, Vanessa ^a   Pfaff, Alexander ^a   Villard, Odile ^a   Candolfi, Ermanno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

congenital toxoplasmosis; mouse inoculation; PCR; placenta; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICE; PARASITOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 77954349497     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3181d7a725     Document Type: Article

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