Performance Testing of PCR Assay in Blood Samples for the Diagnosis of Toxoplasmic Encephalitis in AIDS Patients from the French Departments of America and Genetic Diversity of Toxoplasma gondii: A Prospective and Multicentric Study.

• Main Authors: Daniel Ajzenberg (Author), Isabelle Lamaury (Author), Magalie Demar (Author), Cyrille Vautrin (Author), André Cabié (Author), Stéphane Simon (Author), Muriel Nicolas (Author), Nicole Desbois-Nogard (Author), Rachida Boukhari (Author), Homayoun Riahi (Author), Marie-Laure Dardé (Author), Patrice Massip (Author), Michel Dupon (Author), Pierre-Marie Preux (Author), Anaïs Labrunie (Author), Marie-Paule Boncoeur (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Toxoplasmic encephalitis in patients with AIDS is a life-threatening disease mostly due to reactivation of Toxoplasma gondii cysts in the brain. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of real-time PCR assay in peripheral blood samples for the diagnosis of toxoplasmic enceph...