Utility of Immunoblotting for the Early Diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis
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Utility of Immunoblotting for the Early Diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis 1 Seroconversion in Pregnant Women 2 C. JOST, F. TOUAFEK, A. FEKKAR, R. COURTIN, M. RIBEIRO,D. MAZIER, L. 3 PARIS. 4 AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Service de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Paris F5 75013 France 6 Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S945, Paris F-75013, France 7 INSERM, U945, Paris F-75013, France 8 *Corresponding author: 9 Mailing address: Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, pavillon Laveran, Groupe 10 Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47 & 83 bd de l’Hôpital, 75651, Paris cedex 13, France 11 Phone: 33 1 42 16 01 12 12 Fax: 33 1 42 16 01 65 13 E-mail: [email protected] 14 (Some of the data in this study were presented at ICOCT, the IV International Congress on 15 Congenital Toxoplasmosis, October 2010, Marseille, France) 16
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