Detection of Toxoplasma gondii DNA in peripheral blood and aqueous humor of patients with Toxoplasmic active focal necrotizing retinochoroiditis using real-time PCR

Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 356-358

  dos Santos, Fabio Felipe ^a   Nascimento, Heloisa ^a   Muccioli, Cristina ^a   da Costa, Deise Fialho ^a   Rizzo, Luiz Vicente ^b   Commodaro, Alessandra Gonçalves ^a   Belfort, Rubens ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aqueous humor; Blood parasitology; Choroiditis; Real time polymerase techniques methods; Toxoplasma; Toxoplasmosis, ocular diagnosis

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

AQUEOUS HUMOR; BLOOD; CHORIORETINITIS; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR; UVEITIS;

AQUEOUS HUMOR; CHORIORETINITIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR; UVEITIS;

EID: 84953733143     PISSN: 00042749     EISSN: 16782925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5935/0004-2749.20150094     Document Type: Article

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