Real-time PCR as a prognostic tool for human congenital toxoplasmosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2766-2768

  Costa, Júlia Gatti Ladeia ^a   Carneiro, Ana Carolina Aguiar Vasconcelos ^a   Tavares, Alice Thomáz ^a   Andrade, Gláucia Manzan Queiroz ^b   Vasconcelos Santos, Daniel Vitor ^d   Januário, José Nélio ^c   Menezes Souza, Daniel ^a   Fujiwara, Ricardo Toshio ^a   Vitor, Ricardo Wagner Almeida ^a  

^a Departamento de Parasitologia   (Brazil)

^b Departamento de Pediatria   (Brazil)

^c Núcleo de Ações e Pesquisa em Apoio Diagnóstico   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHORIORETINITIS; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARASITE LOAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TACHYZOITE;

BLOOD; CHOROIDITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PARASITOLOGY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 84880638663     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00982-13     Document Type: Article

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