Publications by authors named "C Poignon"

Accurate tools for Toxoplasma gondii detection and quantification can be valuable for the early and effective management of toxoplasmosis. Droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) is a next-generation end-point PCR technique with high performance. The objective of the study was to evaluate the performance of ddPCR for the detection and absolute quantification of T.

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  • * Recovered COVID-19 patients who received one vaccine dose showed the strongest neutralizing response, while vaccinated naïve patients had high levels against earlier variants but lower activity against the Omicron variant.
  • * The surrogate assays demonstrated a good correlation with VNT results, indicating they could serve as reliable alternatives for analyzing neutralization capabilities on a larger scale, especially against resistant variants like Beta and Omicron.
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Whether severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a significant risk factor for the development of invasive fungal superinfections is of great medical interest and remains, for now, an open question. We aim to assess the occurrence of invasive fungal respiratory superinfections in patients with severe COVID-19. We conducted the study on patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-related pneumonia admitted to five ICUs in France who had respiratory and serum sampling performed for specific screening of fungal complications.

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