LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Molecular diagnosis of symptomatic toxoplasmosis: a 9-year retrospective and prospective study in a referral laboratory in São Paulo, Brazil

Camilo, Lilian Muniz; Pereira-Chioccola, Vera Lucia; Gava, Ricardo; Meira-Strejevitch, Cristina da Silva; Vidal, Jose Ernesto; Mattos, Cinara Cássia Brandão de; Frederico, Fábio Batista; De Mattos, Luiz Carlos; Spegiorin, Lígia Cosentino Junqueira Franco; Murata, Fernando Henrique Antunes; Ferreira, Marina Neves; Barbosa, Deusenia Machado Ulisses; Gonçalves, Fausto da Silva; Dias, Cristiane Moraes; Catelan, Marcia Wakai; Siqueira, Rubens Camargo; Previato, Mariana; Barbosa, Amanda Pires; Cavallini, Danilo.

Braz. j. infect. dis; 21 (6), 2017

ABSTRACT Symptomatic forms of toxoplasmosis are a serious public health problem and occur in around 10-20% of the infected people. Aiming to improve the molecular diagnosis of symptomatic toxoplasmosis in Brazilian patients, this study evaluated the performance of real time PCR testing two primer sets (B...

Cartilla de ADN/genética, ADN Protozoario/genética, Estudios Prospectivos, Reacción en Cadena en Tiempo Real de la Polimerasa, Estudios Retrospectivos, Sensibilidad y Especificidad, Toxoplasma/genética, Toxoplasmosis/clasificación, Toxoplasmosis/diagnóstico

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Sensitivity and detection of chikungunya viral genetic material using several PCR-based approaches

Abstract INTRODUCTION: Chikungunya fever is a condition resulting from infection by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an Aedes sp.-transmitted virus. This disease has been diagnosed in thousands of cases in the Americas, particularly in Brazil, in recent years, and there is an ongoing epidemic of chikungunya ...