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Genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii strains from immunocompromised patients reveals high prevalence of type I strains.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 2005
Khan A, Su C, German M, Storch G A, Clifford D B, Sibley L David
Abstract excerpt
Toxoplasma gondii is an important food- and waterborne opportunistic pathogen that causes severe disease in immunocompromised patients. T. gondii has an unusual clonal population structure consisting of three widespread lineages known as I, II, and III. To establish the genotypes of strains of T. gondii associated with human toxoplasmosis, we have developed a set of four highly sensitive and polymorphic nested...
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