Quantitative competitive PCR with bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in AIDS patients.

Of 121 AIDS patients, 12 (10%) had Toxoplasma gondii DNA detected by competitive PCR in their bronchoalveolar lavage samples. Quantitation of the PCR results showed a correlation between the parasite burden and the serum lactic dehydrogenase titer. Quantitative competitive PCR could be useful to ass...

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Published in:	J Clin Microbiol
Main Authors:	Bretagne, S, Costa, J M, Fleury-Feith, J, Poron, F, Dubreuil-Lemaire, M L, Vidaud, M
Format:	Artigo
Language:	Inglês
Published:	American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 1995
Subjects:	Research Article
Online Access:	https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC228241/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7650210/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.33.6.1662-1664.1995
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