Contribution of molecular diagnosis to congenital toxoplasmosis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 244-247

  Delhaes, Laurence ^a   Yera, Hélène ^b   Ache, Sandrine ^a   Tsatsaris, Vassili ^b   Houfflin Debarge, Véronique ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Institut Cochin   (France)

Author keywords

Congenital toxoplasmosis; Molecular diagnostic; PCR; Real time PCR; Toxoplasma

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MATERNAL BLOOD; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NEWBORN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

CHILD; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 84877836412     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.02.008     Document Type: Article

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