First isolation and genetic characterization of a Toxoplasma gondii strain from a symptomatic human case of congenital toxoplasmosis in Romania

Parasite

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Costache, Carmen Anca ^a   Colosi, Horaţiu Alexandru ^a   Blaga, Ligia ^a   Györke, Adriana ^b   Paştiu, Anamaria Ioana ^b   Colosi, Ioana Alina ^a   Ajzenberg, Daniel ^c,d  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

^c DUPUYTREN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Congenital toxoplasmosis; Eastern Europe; Genotyping

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; BIOASSAY; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PREMATURITY; ROMANIA; TOXOPLASMA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MICE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; ROMANIA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 84880607811     PISSN: 1252607X     EISSN: 17761042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2013011     Document Type: Article

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