Use of dense granule antigen GRA6 in an immunoglobulin G avidity test to exclude acute Toxoplasma gondii infection during pregnancy

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1349-1355

  Elyasi, Hossein ^a,b   Babaie, Jalal ^a   Fricker Hidalgo, Hélène ^c   Brenier Pinchart, Marie Pierre ^c,d   Zare, Mehrak ^a   Sadeghiani, Ghazaleh ^a   Assmar, Mehdi ^a   Pelloux, Hervé ^c,d   Golkar, Majid ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FANSIDAR; GRA6 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; SPIRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IRAN; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 77956395635     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00199-10     Document Type: Article

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