Quantitative competitive PCR with bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in AIDS patients
- 1 June 1995
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 33 (6) , 1662-4
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.33.6.1662-1664.1995
Abstract
Of 121 AIDS patients, 12 (10%) had Toxoplasma gondii DNA detected by competitive PCR in their bronchoalveolar lavage samples. Quantitation of the PCR results showed a correlation between the parasite burden and the serum lactic dehydrogenase titer. Quantitative competitive PCR could be useful to assess the diagnosis and the severity of pulmonary toxoplasmosis.Keywords
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