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    Utility of blood as the clinical specimen for the diagnosis of ocular toxoplasmosis using uracil DNA glycosylase-supplemented loop-mediated isothermal amplification and real-time polymerase chain reaction assays based on REP-529 sequence and B1 gene

    Ocular infection with Toxoplasma gondii is a major preventable cause of blindness, especially in young people. The aim of the present study was to assess detection rate of T. gondii DNA in blood samples of clinic...

    Bahman Rahimi Esboei, Shirzad Fallahi, Mohammad Zarei in BMC Infectious Diseases (2022)

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    The relation of secondary sex ratio and miscarriage history with Toxoplasma gondii infection

    Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite with worldwide distribution, infecting a broad-range of humans and warm-blooded animals. In the current study, role of this parasite on secondary sex ratio and risk of mi...

    Saeedeh Shojaee, Aref Teimouri, Hossein Keshavarz in BMC Infectious Diseases (2018)

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    Toxoplasma gondii: sexual transmission in mice

    This study was performed to evaluate sexual transmission of Toxoplasma gondii in mice. RH strain tachyzoites were intraperitoneally inoculated into 10 Balb/C male mice and after 48 h, their semen were collected f...

    Qasem Asgari, Hossein Keshavarz Valian, Mostafa Rezaeian in Journal of Parasitic Diseases (2015)