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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii, Rubella virus and Cytomegalovirus among pregnant women and the importance of avidity assays

Mumtaz C. Sirin, Neval Agus, Nisel Yilmaz, Arzu Bayram, Yeser K. Derici, Pinar Samlioglu, Sevgi Y. Hanci and Guliz Dogan
Saudi Medical Journal July 2017, 38 (7) 727-732; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.7.18182
Mumtaz C. Sirin
From the Department of Medical Microbiology, Izmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
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Neval Agus
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Nisel Yilmaz
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Arzu Bayram
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Yeser K. Derici
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Guliz Dogan
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Article Information

vol. 38 no. 7 727-732
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.7.18182
PubMed 
28674718

Published By 
Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received December 17, 2016
  • Accepted April 18, 2017
  • Published online July 1, 2017.

Copyright & Usage 
Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Mumtaz C. Sirin, MD⇑,
  2. Neval Agus, MD,
  3. Nisel Yilmaz, MD,
  4. Arzu Bayram, MD,
  5. Yeser K. Derici, MD,
  6. Pinar Samlioglu, MD,
  7. Sevgi Y. Hanci, MD and
  8. Guliz Dogan, MD
  1. From the Department of Medical Microbiology, Izmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Mumtaz C. Sirin, Department of Medical Microbiology, Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey. E-mail: drmcemsirin{at}yahoo.com ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-7349-3438
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