Toxoplasma gondii in the peripheral blood of patients with acute and chronic toxoplasmosis

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 396-400

  Silveira, Cláudio ^a   Vallochi, Adriana Lima ^b   Da Silva, Ulisses Rodrigues ^b   Muccioli, Cristina ^a   Holland, Gary N ^c   Nussenblatt, Robert B ^d   Belfort, Rubens ^a   Rizzo, Luiz Vicente ^b,e,f,g  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Albert Einstein Research and Education Institute   (Brazil)

^f Brazilian Min of Sci and Technol   (Brazil)

^g HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHORIORETINITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; EYE DISEASE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITEMIA; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMIC RETINOCHOROIDITIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHORIORETINITIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952010775     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2008.148205     Document Type: Article

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