Western blotting for the diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis.

The investigation of congenital toxoplasmosis in a tertiary care hospital in Turkey.

OBJECTIVE To elucidate the prevalence of congenital toxoplasmosis in Turkey. METHODS This study was conducted in the Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey during the period of 2006 and 2007. Venous blood before delivery and cord blood during delivery were collected from 138 women, and we observed the presence of immunoglobulin (Ig)G and IgM antibodies ...

Congenital TOXOPLASMOSIS (IgG-IgM) TOXOPLASMA IgG TOXOCARA IgG LEISHMANIA IgG ECHINOCOCCUS IgG CYSTICERCOSIS IgG TRICHINELLA IgG SCHISTOSOMA IgG FASCIOLA IgG HUMAN DIAGNOSTIC Western Blot KITS FOR PARASITOLOGY and MYCOLOGY

Evaluation of a new protocol for retrospective diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis by use of Guthrie cards.

The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic value of IgM Western blotting (WB), IgA enzyme immunoassay (EIA), and DNA amplification by real-time PCR on Guthrie cards to retrospectively establish the diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis (CT). To this purpose, Guthrie cards were collected from 18 infants born to mothers with primary Toxoplasma gondii infection during pregnancy. Moreover, ...

Prenatal and Early Postnatal Diagnosis of Congenital Toxoplasmosis in a Setting With No Systematic Screening in Pregnancy.

To determine the risk of congenital toxoplasmosis (CT) and provide early (pre- or postnatal) identification of cases of CT in the absence of systematic screening in pregnancy.I n the presented cross-sectional study, serological criteria were used to date Toxoplasma gondii infection versus conception in 80 pregnant women with fetal abnormalities or referred to as suspected of acute infection, an...

First Colombian Multicentric Newborn Screening for Congenital Toxoplasmosis

AIMS To determine the incidence of congenital toxoplasmosis in Colombian newborns from 19 hospital or maternal child health services from seven different cities of five natural geographic regions (Caribbean, Central, Andean, Amazonia and Eastern). MATERIALS AND METHODS We collected 15,333 samples from umbilical cord blood between the period of March 2009 to May 2010 in 19 different hospitals ...