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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Published in:	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Authors:	Alessandra G. Commodaro, Melissa Chiasson, Natarajan Sundar, Luiz Vicente Rizzo, Rubens Belfort, Michael E. Grigg
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2016-04-01
Subjects:	ocular toxoplasmosis serotype Toxoplasma gondii genotype retina parasites
Online Access:	https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/4/14-1819_article