These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Construction of a genomic DNA library of the Toxoplasma gondii ZS2 strain, screening of specific clones, and DNA diagnosis of toxoplasmosis.
    Author: Xia AD, Gu YZ, Xu SJ, Wang KM, Yang HZ, Xu KJ, Qian ZL, Chen SS.
    Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg; 1992 Jan; 46(1):50-6. PubMed ID: 1536384.
    Abstract:
    We have constructed a genomic DNA library of the Toxoplasma gondii ZS2 strain and isolated a specific cloned DNA sequence from this organism. The restriction map of this cloned 1.1-kb DNA fragment was analyzed. Southern and dot-blot analyses showed that the 32P-labeled DNA fragment hybridized to parasite DNA, to DNAs from peripheral blood leukocytes and the thymus of baby pigs that were artificially infected with T. gondii, and to DNAs of T. gondii-positive anencephalic and hydrocephalic fetuses. It did not hybridize with DNA from controls, (i.e., normal human and baby pig peripheral blood leukocytes, spleen of normal mice, Plasmodium falciparum, Pneumocystis carinii, and pBR322). As few as 100 T. gondii parasites or 500 pg of purified DNA from T. gondii can be detected by dot-blot hybridization. This probe method was specific and sensitive, and has been used successfully in detecting various clinical cases of toxoplasmosis with T. gondii.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]