Utility of Immunoblotting for Early Diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis Seroconversion in Pregnant Women
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Utility of immunoblotting for early diagnosis of toxoplasmosis seroconversion in pregnant women.
Congenital transmission of Toxoplasma gondii occurs mainly when a mother acquires the infection for the first time during pregnancy. It was recently shown that although early treatment of the primary infection during pregnancy has little or no impact on the fetomaternal transmission rate, it does reduce the incidence of sequelae in infected infants. Seroconversion is defined by the appearance o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1556-6811,1556-679X
DOI: 10.1128/cvi.05303-11