High sensitivity of detection of human malaria parasites by the use of nested polymerase chain reaction

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 315-320

  Snounou, Georges ^a   Viriyakosol, Suganya ^a   Xin Ping Zhu, ^a   Jarra, William ^a   Pinheiro, Lucilia ^b   do Rosario, Virgilio E ^b   Thaithong, Sodsri ^c   Brown, K Neil ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^c WHO Collaborating Center for Research on Rabies Pathogenesis and Prevention   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Mixed infection; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium malariae; Plasmodium ovale; Plasmodium vivax; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA PRIMERS; HUMAN; MALARIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 0027420335     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(93)90077-B     Document Type: Article

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