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| Belfort,RN; Nussenblatt,Veronique; Rizzo,Luiz; Muccioli,Cristina; Silveira,Claudio; Nussenblatt,Robert; Khan,Assis; Sibley,L. David; Belfort-Jr.,Rubens. |
| Toxoplasmosis is the most common cause of infectious uveitis in Brazil, with a higher frequency in the South of the country. We have collected samples from porcine tongue and diaphragm obtained in both large and small abattoirs and used molecular biological technique to determine the prevalence of infection and RFLP analysis to type the parasites. Seventeen out of 50 (34%) samples from the diaphragm and 33 out of 50 (66%) samples from the tongue demonstrated a positive PCR reaction for T. gondii and restriction analysis of four of the positive samples revealed that all had a type I genotype at SAG2. However, when other unlinked loci were analyzed, these strains had a type III genotype at markers BTUB, SAG3, and GRA6. One of the strains (8T) had a type II... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Ocular toxoplasmosis; Toxoplasma gondii; Genotypes. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652007000100013 |
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