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Prevalent genotypes of Toxoplasma gondii in pregnant women and patients from Crete and Cyprus.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 Aug 2008
Messaritakis Ippokratis, Detsika Maria, Koliou Maria, Sifakis Stavros, Antoniou Maria
Abstract excerpt
Molecular genotyping has been used to characterize Toxoplasma gondii strains into the three clonal lineages known as types I, II, and III. To characterize T. gondii strains from Greece and Cyprus, polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis on the GRA6 gene was performed directly on 20 clinical samples from 18 humans (11 pregnant women, six patients with lymphadenopathy, and one...
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