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Genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii by multiplex PCR and peptide-based serological testing of samples from infants in Poland diagnosed with congenital toxoplasmosis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 2006
Nowakowska Dorota, Colón Iris, Remington Jack S, Grigg Michael, Golab Elzbieta, Wilczynski J, Sibley L David
Abstract excerpt
Toxoplasma gondii has a clonal population genetic structure with three (I, II, and III) lineages that predominate in North America and Europe. Type II strains cause most cases of symptomatic human infections in France and the United States, although few other regions have been adequately sampled. Here we determined the parasite genotype in amniotic fluid and cerebrospinal fluid samples from congenital...
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