Elevated Toxoplasma gondii Infection Rates for Retinas from Eye Banks, Southern Brazil

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Commodaro, Alessandra G. ; Chiasson, Melissa ; Sundar, Natarajan ; Rizzo, Luiz Vicente ; Belfort, Rubens ; Grigg, Michael E.
• Description:
  We found significantly higher incidence of Toxoplasma gondii DNA in eye bank specimens from Joinville in southern Brazil (13/15, 87%) than in São Paulo (3/42, 7%; p = 2.1 × 10E-8). PCR DNA sequence analysis was more sensitive at locus NTS2 than at locus B1; a high frequency of mixed co-infections was detected.
• Subjects:
  Adult Aged Chorioretinitis Eye Banks Genetic Loci Genotype Humans Middle Aged Polymerase Chain Reaction Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length Prevalence Retina Toxoplasma Toxoplasmosis, Ocular

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 22(4):691-693.
• Pubmed ID:
  26982526
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4806975
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  Dispatch
• Place as Subject:
  Brazil
• Volume:
  22
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0a12fcec7f6219e48bcb3d3fcb0dc8a34bdfc80040221ed827cdb9be37ea194e
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/38699/cdc_38699_DS1.pdf
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