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