Performance Testing of PCR Assay in Blood Samples for the Diagnosis of Toxoplasmic Encephalitis in AIDS Patients from the French Departments of America and Genetic Diversity of Toxoplasma gondii: A Prospective and Multicentric Study.

Performance Testing of PCR Assay in Blood Samples for the Diagnosis of Toxoplasmic Encephalitis in AIDS Patients from the French Departments of America and Genetic Diversity of Toxoplasma gondii: A Prospective and Multicentric Study.

Toxoplasmic encephalitis in patients with AIDS is a life-threatening disease mostly due to reactivation of Toxoplasma gondii cysts in the brain. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of real-time PCR assay in peripheral blood samples for the diagnosis of toxoplasmic enceph...

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Main Authors: Daniel Ajzenberg, Isabelle Lamaury, Magalie Demar, Cyrille Vautrin, André Cabié, Stéphane Simon, Muriel Nicolas, Nicole Desbois-Nogard, Rachida Boukhari, Homayoun Riahi, Marie-Laure Dardé, Patrice Massip, Michel Dupon, Pierre-Marie Preux, Anaïs Labrunie, Marie-Paule Boncoeur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-06-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4927177?pdf=render

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