Elevated Toxoplasma gondii Infection Rates for Retinas from Eye Banks, Southern Brazil

We found significantly higher incidence of Toxoplasma gondii DNA in eye bank specimens from Joinville in southern Brazil (13/15, 87%) than in São Paulo (3/42, 7%; p = 2.1 × 10E–8). PCR DNA sequence analysis was more sensitive at locus NTS2 than at locus B1; a high frequency of mixed co-infections wa...

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Autores principales: Commodaro, Alessandra G., Chiasson, Melissa, Sundar, Natarajan, Rizzo, Luiz Vicente, Belfort, Rubens, Grigg, Michael E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2016
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4806975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26982526
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2204.141819

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4806975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26982526
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2204.141819

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