Toxoplasmic Encephalitis

Immunoblot Testing Effective For Prognosis

Published in Blood Weekly, July 12th, 2001

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers have shown that immunoglobulin G (IgG) immunoblot testing for Toxoplasma gondii is an effective means of determining patients at high risk for developing toxoplasmic encephalitis (TE), a common central nervous system infection among AIDS patients.

Catherine Leport and colleagues at the Xavier Bichat Faculty of Medicine in France and other institutions conducted a study comparing different prognostic indicators of high TE risk. Their results were published in the journal Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology.

Immunoblot testing provided the most reliable marker of elevated TE...

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